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.
Mason, George. The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, edited by Robert A. Rutland, vol. 2, University of North Carolina Press, 1970.
It had been written for a nationwide TV address he was to deliver, but he died before so. This was his last writing.
The voters didn't give him a chance to fulfill that pledge. Hearst was defeated in the New York mayoralty race.
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.