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.

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.

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.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

A good reading strengthens the soul.

The value of an opinion is only measured by its user. It's ironic that the value of a fact is only measured by its observer.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.

I work for men that I would love to meet, somebody who I could fall in love with, someone who intrigues me.

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

Consciousness of our strength increases it.

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

It was in the forest. No one saw it or heard it. So did it actually happen?