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“All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.” quote by George Mason — Download Open image

“All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.”

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This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax…

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“To disarm the people--that was the best and most effective way to enslave them.”

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I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty…

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That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize…

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Who are the militia, if they be not the people, of this country...? I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the…

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To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

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The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

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We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.

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I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in…

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I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.

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That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public…

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That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from, or independent of the government of Virginia, ought…

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The shot heard round the world.

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“The British government in 1807 had issued the “Orders in Council,” which enforced a naval blockade against France, and with a shortage of seamen to man the Royal Navy, Britain also felt justified in stopping and sometimes firing on ships flying the American flag in the name of apprehending escaped British sailors. The other main cause of war was distress…

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During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

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