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George Mason's Profile

Brief about George Mason: By info that we know George Mason was born at 1970-01-01. And also George Mason is American Statesman.

George Mason Biography

George Mason, American statesman was born on December 11, 1725. He was the son of George and Ann Thomson Mason. After his father's death he moved to his uncle - John Mercer. Mason studied in a private academy in Maryland.

 In 1750, George Mason married to Ann Eilbeck, when she was 16 years old. They had their own  property in Dogue's Neck, Virginia , that is where they  lived. George and Eilbeck had twelve children. Only nine of them reached adulthood. In 1753 their first child, George Mason V was born.  

In 1784, Mason  married to Elizabeth Mary Ann Barnes Hooe. They had six children. Mrs. Elizabeth  died in 1796.

The offspring of George Mason: George Mason V, Ann Eilbeck Mason Johnson, William Mason, William Mason, Thomson Mason, Sarah Eilbeck Mason McCarty, Mary Thomson Mason Cooke, John Mason, Elizabeth Mason Thornton, Thomas Mason, James Mason and Richard Mason.

Some George Mason's quotes. Goto "George Mason's quotation" section for more.

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

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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.

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

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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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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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The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

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

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All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

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

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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.

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

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

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Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

Tags: Business, Good, Power

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.

Tags: Happiness, Life, Wise
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