George Mason from His Last Will and Testament
Posted by Antoinette Petersen | Labels: country, George Mason, will and testament | Posted On Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 9:00 AM
"I recommend it to my sons, from my own experience in life, to prefer the happiness of independance and a private station to the roubles and vexations of public business; but if either their own inclinations or the necessity of the times should engage them in public affairs, I charge them, on a father's blessing, 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 of death deter them from asserting the liberty of their counrty, and endeavoring to transmit their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born."
~George Mason~
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