Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

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.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

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.

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.

The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

A man's house is his castle.

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.

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

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

Seek only to preserve life -- your own and those of others. Life alone is sacred.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Everybody should have a television show. Let's all get television shows!

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech.

I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

Someone once I asked my son Cruz, 'When's your birthday?' and he told them, 'It's just after Fashion Week!'