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Quote from George Mason,


“[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.”


By:

George Mason (more quotes by George Mason or books by/about George Mason)


(1725-1792), drafted the Virgina Declaration of Rights, ally of James Madison and George Washington

Source:

from debates during the Virginia state ratifying convention (June 14, 1788), quoted in Elliot’s Debates

Categories:

Apathy, Arms, Deception, Disarmament, Guns, Militia, Oppression, Servitude, Tyranny

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