George Mason's Profile
Brief about George Mason: By info that we know George Mason was born at 1970-01-01. And also George Mason is American Statesman.
George Mason Biography
George Mason, American statesman was born on December 11, 1725. He was the son of George and Ann Thomson Mason. After his father's death he moved to his uncle - John Mercer. Mason studied in a private academy in Maryland.
In 1750, George Mason married to Ann Eilbeck, when she was 16 years old. They had their own property in Dogue's Neck, Virginia , that is where they lived. George and Eilbeck had twelve children. Only nine of them reached adulthood. In 1753 their first child, George Mason V was born.
In 1784, Mason married to Elizabeth Mary Ann Barnes Hooe. They had six children. Mrs. Elizabeth died in 1796.
The offspring of George Mason: George Mason V, Ann Eilbeck Mason Johnson, William Mason, William Mason, Thomson Mason, Sarah Eilbeck Mason McCarty, Mary Thomson Mason Cooke, John Mason, Elizabeth Mason Thornton, Thomas Mason, James Mason and Richard Mason.
Some George Mason's quotes. Goto "George Mason's quotation" section for more.I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
Tags: Few, Public, WholeA 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.
Tags: Experience, Greatest, TimeThe augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
Tags: Mankind, Slaves, TradeIn 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.
Tags: Lose, Power, SightThere is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
Tags: Him, Mind, PassionAs nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.
Tags: Nations, Next, PunishedTaught 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.
Tags: Great, Lose, NatureI begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
Tags: Grow, Nonsense, TiredI wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.
Tags: Cold, Good, WishAs 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.
Tags: Strength, Union, ValueAttend 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.
Tags: Almost, Integrity, MeansEvery 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.
Tags: Good, Government, SocietyHabituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
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