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"To disarm the people (is) the best and most effectual way to enslave them..." George Mason
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"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials." George Mason
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"He's 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." George Mason
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"That'd be cool. Some of our threes (Thursday) night didn't have a chance. I knew they weren't going in as they left the hand." George Mason
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"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." George Mason
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"I'm 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." George Mason
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"Impeachment should be reserved for treason, bribery, and high crimes and misdemeanors where the president's actions are great and dangerous offenses or attempts to subvert the Constitution and the most extensive injustice." George Mason
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"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." George Mason
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"... 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." George Mason
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"I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city." George Mason
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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." George Mason
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"All men are by nature born equally free and independent." George Mason
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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." George Mason
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"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this." George Mason
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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." George Mason
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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." George Mason
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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." George Mason
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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." George Mason
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"I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable." George Mason
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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." George Mason
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"Slavery discourages arts and manufactures." George Mason
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