“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them..." -George Mason”

“To disarm the people--that was the best and most effective way to enslave them.”

“A brick could be used to enslave humanity. No wait, a brick can’t do that—but the Masons can.
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“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large...”

“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.”

“Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.”