George Mason IV Quotes

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

  George Mason IV

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• Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

  George Mason IV

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• Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

  George Mason IV

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  Tags in Creator, Misfortune

• I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

  George Mason IV

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  Tags in Conviction

• 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 of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.

  George Mason IV

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Useful, Purposes

• Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

  George Mason IV

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  Tags in Human Nature, Generous, Liberal, Sentiment

• Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

  George Mason IV

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  Tags in Government, Community

• A few years’ experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

  George Mason IV

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  Tags in Greatest, Misfortunes

• As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

  George Mason IV

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  Tags in Disgraceful, Trade, Southern, States

• As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

  George Mason IV

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  Tags in World, Nations

• 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.

  George Mason IV

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• All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

  George Mason IV

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• I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

  George Mason IV

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  Tags in Public, Officials

• I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.

  George Mason IV

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  Tags in Myself

• I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

  George Mason IV

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  Tags in Fashionable, City

• In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim – that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

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• We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

  George Mason IV

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• The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

  George Mason IV

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• There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.

  George Mason IV

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  Tags in Impatient, Restraint

• The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

  George Mason IV

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  Tags in Despise, Labor

George Mason IV (20)

Birth:	11th December, 1725
Death:	7th October, 1792
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician

About

George Mason IV was born in Fairfax County, Colony of Virginia, British America. He was an American politician and a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, one of three men who refused to sign. His writings, including substantial portions of the Fairfax Resolves of 1774, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, and his Objections to this Constitution of Government in opposition to ratification of the constitution, have been a significant influence on political thought and events.

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