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George Mason

"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials."

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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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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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"Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes."
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