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 Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

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.
- George Mason Quote

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 Quote

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

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

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
- George Mason Quote