American - Lawyer | February 5, 1725 - May 23, 1783
Taxation without representation is tyranny.
James Otis
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Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
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It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
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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.
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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.
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Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.
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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.
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Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.
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If we are not represented, we are slaves.
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A man's house is his castle.
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A man is accountable to no person for his doings.
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These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
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