George Mason Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from your side of the water except the authoritative style of a master to a school-boy.

  George Mason

  Children, School, Boys

• I am now pretty far advanced in life, and all my views are center'd in the Happiness and well-fare of my children; you will therefore find from me every Indulgence which you have a right to expect from an affectionate Parent.

  George Mason

  Children, Views, Parent

  Letter to his son, George Mason, January 8, 1783.

• If I can only live to see the American union firmly fixed, and free governments well established in our western world, and can leave to my children but a crust of bread and liberty, I shall die satisfied.

  George Mason

  Children, Government, Liberty

• I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.

  George Mason

  Retirement, Children, Comfort

  Letter to a member of the Brent family, October 2, 1778.

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