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 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.

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

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.

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.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

…Do not discount the value of luck. It is a hidden and unseen attribute in a man that will save him when nothing else can— learn to embrace it.

Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT.

When you do something for someone else, it's for you. When you do something for yourself, it's for someone else.

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.

Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.

Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.