“Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniences and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.”

—  George Mason

Letter to George Washington (5 April 1769)

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

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