I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or of death deter them from asserting the liberty of their country, and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born
George MasonThose gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.
George MasonThe laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.
George Mason