George Mason Quotes


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.


Citations

Mason, George. The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, edited by Robert A. Rutland, vol. 2, University of North Carolina Press, 1970.

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George Mason
George Mason
  • Born: December 11, 1725
  • Died: October 7, 1792
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Plantation Owner

George Mason IV was an American planter, politician and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, one of three delegates who refused to sign the Constitution. His writings, including substantial portions of the Fairfax Resolves of 1774, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, and his Objections to this Constitution of Government (1787) opposing ratification, have exercised a significant influence on American political thought and events. The Virginia Declaration of Rights, which Mason principally authored, served as a basis for the United States Bill of Rights, a document of which he has been deemed a father.