James Otis

“Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.”

“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.”

“Taxation without representation is tyranny.”

“A man's house is his castle.”

“The colonists are by the law of nature freeborn, as indeed all men are, white or black.”

“An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.”

“If we are not represented, we are slaves.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Government is a conditional compact between king and people.”

“No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.”