"Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the……" — George Mason
"Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing."
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42 Quotes by George Mason
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The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.
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No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to…
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The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
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[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man,…
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I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.
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That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the…
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The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right…
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Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation or community; whenever…
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Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished,…
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As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the…
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I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good,…
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Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.
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More Almost Certain Quotes
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If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.
— Whitfield Diffie
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We have been forced to admit for the first time in history not only the possibility of the fact of…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something…
— Unknown Author
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To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.
— Alfred Molina
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Comparing [our] blessings [with others] is almost certain to drive out joy. We cannot be grateful and envious at the…
— Quentin L. Cook
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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to…
— John C. Maxwell
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A young woman is dead. I don’t care. You probably don’t care. The police don’t care. The papers don’t care.…
— Lester Bangs
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Timing is everything. Tell me how a young man spends his evenings and I will tell you how far he…
— B. C. Forbes
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Inflation, especially a slow steady rise in prices, encourages producers, because it means that they can commit themselves to costs…
— Carroll Quigley
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Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you…
— Harvey Korman
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This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth…
— Raquel Cepeda
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Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background,…
— Stanley Schmidt
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