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George Mason

"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."

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"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."

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"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."

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"Mankind advances only through struggle."

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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

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"General consultant to mankind."

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"Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best."

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"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."

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"The proper study of mankind is woman."

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"It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind."

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"Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."

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"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."

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"I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city."
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"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."
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"A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings."
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"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this."
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"In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people."
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"As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union."
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"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials."
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"Slavery discourages arts and manufactures."
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"We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it."
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"The poor despise labor when performed by slaves."
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