“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.”

—  George Mason

Letter to his son, John Mason (12 June 1788)

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American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional … 1725–1792

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