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George Mason Quotes

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

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

George Mason's address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1788.

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

George Mason's remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company, circa April 1775.

That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.

"The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America" compiled and edited by Newton Thorpe, Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 1909.

The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.

"The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution", vol. 3, edited by Jonathan Elliot, 1974.

Who are the militia, if they be not the people, of this country...? I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.

"The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution", vol. 3, edited by Jonathan Elliot, 1974.