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Taxation without representation is tyranny.


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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.

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.



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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.





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You know that he who would be the greatest among you must become the servant of all.




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