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The people's safety is the law of God.
I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other, as this Writ of Assistance is.
One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.
What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!
My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
Dew depends not on Parliament.
Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.
[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before.
An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.
I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow ... for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor ...
If we are not represented, we are slaves.
Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.
The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of God and nature, by the common law, and by act of parliament, (exclusive of all charters from the crown) entitled to all the natural, essential, inherent and inseparable rights of our fellow subjects in Great- Britain.
MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.
