George Mason Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles; and by the recognition by all citizens that they have duties as well as rights, and that such rights cannot be enjoyed save in a society where law is respected and due process is observed.

  George Mason

  Blessing, Rights, Government

• We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.

  George Mason

  Country, Mother, Pay

  Letter to a member of the Brent family, December 6, 1770.

• We will not submit to have our own money taken out of our pockets without our consent; because if any man or any set of men take from us without our consent or that of our representatives one shilling in the pound we have not security for the remaining nineteen. We owe to our mother country the duty of subjects but will not pay her the submission of slaves.

  George Mason

  Mother, Country, Taken

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