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== Quotes ==
== Quotes ==
* "To disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them." <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=fN3RybwnMAYC&pg=PA409&dq=to+disarm++the+people%3B+that+it+was+the+best+and+most+effectual+way+to+enslave+them&ei=Cz1ESvrlPIeyyQT87sxG The Life of George Mason, 1725-1792: Including His Speeches, Public Papers- Page 409] by Kate Mason Rowland</ref>
* "Forty years ago, when the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man,<ref>Mason here was referring to Sir William Keith</ref> 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 to weaken them and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia." <ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=fN3RybwnMAYC&pg=PA409&dq=to+disarm++the+people%3B+that+it+was+the+best+and+most+effectual+way+to+enslave+them&ei=Cz1ESvrlPIeyyQT87sxG The Life of George Mason, 1725-1792: Including His Speeches, Public Papers- Page 409] by Kate Mason Rowland</ref>
==External links==
==External links==
==References==
==References==
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