85 Quotes by George Mason

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

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.

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.

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.

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

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

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.

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.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.