Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” ~ George Mason (1725-1792), drafted the Virgina Declaration of Rights, ally of James Madison and George WashingtonSource: June 14, 1788, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution,in_Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,_Jonathan Elliot, ed., v.3 p.380 (Philadelphia, 1836)