Quotes by George Mason

“To disarm the people (is) 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.”

“Hes an incredible player, man. With a player like that, he kind of opens up things for the other guys on his team. We definitely have to have an awareness of him.”

“Thatd be cool. Some of our threes (Thursday) night didnt have a chance. I knew they werent going in as they left the hand.”

“It can be difficult, ... If you had it since you were a kid, then you have had to deal with the pressure or stigma of being labeled slow or not committed, or simply having had your head up your (behind) or in the clouds.”

“Im very excited with the quality of the non-conference teams we have on our schedule, ... To play at Mississippi State and to host Creighton, to potentially face Wake Forest on their floor, those are the types of games that should help prepare our team for the rigors of conference play.”

“Impeachment should be reserved for treason, bribery, and high crimes and misdemeanors where the presidents actions are great and dangerous offenses or attempts to subvert the Constitution and the most extensive injustice.”

“No point is of more importance than the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above justice? Above all, shall that man be above it who can commit the most extensive injustice.”

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

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

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.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.