United States Founding Fathers

George Mason

Quotes

Faith in Jesus Christ

  1. "My soul I resign into the hands of my Almighty Creator, whose tender mercies are all over His works, who hateth nothing that He hath made, and to the justice and wisdom of whose dispensations I willingly and cheerfully submit, humbly hoping from His unbounded mercy and benevolence, through the merits of my blessed Savior a remission of my sins." - United States Founding Father, "Father of the Bill of Rights", Constitutional Convention Delegate, George Mason, "Last Will and Testament"

Freedom of Religion

  1. "All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others." - United States Founding Father, "Father of the Bill of Rights", Constitutional Convention Delegate, George Mason, "The Life of George Mason", Kate Mason Rowland, (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1892), Vol. I, p. 244, Mason's proposed wording for the First Amendment

Government

  1. "We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse must depend upon our own wisdom or folly, virtue or wickedness. ... Justice and virtue are the vital principles of republican government." - United States Founding Father, "Father of the Bill of Rights", Constitutional Convention Delegate, George Mason, "Patrick Henry: Life, Correspondence and Speeches", William Wirt Henry, editor, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891), Vol. II, p. 185, from George Mason to Patrick Henry, May 6, 1783

Security

  1. "As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, so they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." - United States Founding Father, "Father of the Bill of Rights", Constitutional Convention Delegate, George Mason, "The Papers of James Madison", Henry Gilpin, editor, (Washington: Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1840), Vol. III, pp. 1391, August 22, 1787, "Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787", James Madison, (New York: W.W. Norton and Company), p. 504, said to the delegates at the Constitutional Convention

Slavery

  1. "As much as I value a union of all the States, I would not admit the Southern States into the Union unless they agree to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade [slavery]." - United States Founding Father, "Father of the Bill of Rights", Constitutional Convention Delegate, George Mason, "Elliot's Debates", Vol. III, pp. 452-454, June 15, 1788

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