George Mason Quotes
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Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.
Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.
The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?
Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.
The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.
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Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing.
Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.
A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.