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

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
George Mason

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
George Mason

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.
George Mason

All men are by nature born equally free and independent.
George Mason

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.
George Mason

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