Top 30 James Otis Quotes
#1. A man is accountable to no person for his doings.
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#2. 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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#3. Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
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#4. Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
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#5. I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.
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#6. One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.
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#7. 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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#8. Taxation without representation is tyranny.
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#9. There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.
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#10. I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.
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#11. Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.
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#12. The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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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#15. Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?
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#16. These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
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#18. If we are not represented, we are slaves.
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#19. 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.
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#20. But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
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#21. The people's safety is the law of God.
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#22. 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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#24. No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.
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#25. 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 ...
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#26. [The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before.
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#27. What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!
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#28. 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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#29. An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.
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#30. 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.
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