George Mason Quotes


This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax Justice of the Peace] since I have been at Home. I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.


Citations

Mason, George. The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, edited by Robert A. Rutland, vol. 1, 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.