| | George Mason of Gunston Hall (1725-1792) |
 | | Such a one was the author of the Virginia Bill of Rights and Constitution of 1776, the father of the American Bill of Rights proposed in 1789 and adopted in 1791, and grandfather of every other Bill of Rights that has been adopted in the world since that day. |
 | | 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 judgment, cogent in argument, learned in the lore of our former constitution, and earnest for the republican change on democratic principles. |
 | | George Mason was not a man to put on and then shed his principles "like some shabby old coat at the door." The same libertarian rode into Philadelphia in May 1787 that rode into Williamsburg in May 1776. |
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