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MASON, George: Memorial in East Potomac Park in Washington, D.C.
by Wendy Ross
Bronze by Wendy Ross
Address: Ohio Drive at NW corner of East Potomac Park Nearest Metro: Smithsonian (Orange - Blue)
Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control number 74300012 (dcMem ID #1098)
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The first declaration of rights which truly deserves the name is that of Virginia ... and its author is entitled to the eternal gratitude of mankind. Marquis de Condorcet Paris 1789
All power is vested in and consequently derived from, the people...
Government is or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection and security of the people
The freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained by despotick governments.
All men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion
Virginia Declaration of Rights June 1776
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This was George Mason, a man of the first order of wisdom among those who acted on the theatre of the revolution, of expansive mind, profound judgement, cogent in argument...
Thomas Jefferson [1801?]
Regarding slavery...that slow poison, which is daily contaminating the minds & morals of our people. Every gentleman here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism & cruelty. We become callous to the dictates of humanity & all the finer feelings of the soul. Taught to regard a part of our own species in the most abject & contemptible degree below us. We lose that idea of the dignity of man, which the hand of nature had implanted in us for great & useful purposes
George Mason [July 1773?]
I recommend it to my sons ... never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to induce them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace or the fear of danger or of death deter from asserting the liberty of their country and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born.
George Mason March [1773?]
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