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Man Quotes by George Mason
- [W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania,…
- Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people,…
- Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.
- Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity…
- There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
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