American - Statesman | December 11, 1725 - October 7, 1792
We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
George Mason
EqualityWorldGoOutShallEquals
All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
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I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
PeopleAskWholeSirExceptPublic
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.
GoodCommunityGovernmentSafety
I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
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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.
IntegrityYouDiligenceInterest
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.
TimeExperienceBlessingsWillYears
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.
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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.
PowerPeopleLoseSightNeverUs
As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.
WorldNextMustNationsPunished
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
MankindTradeSlavesStatesItself
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
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