Quotes by James Otis

James Otis

[Slave] trade … is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish … liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman [peddler]…. It is a clear truth, that those who every day barter away other men’s liberty will soon care little for their own.

Law

Men

Tyrants

[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before.

People

Six Months

Thinking

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

Doings

Men

Writs Of Assistance

A man’s house is his castle.

Home

House

Men

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

Constitution

Natural

Void

And I take this opportunity to declare, that… 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. It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, – the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book.

Book

Hands

Opportunity

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience’ sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

Names

Soul

Thinking

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

Freedom

Liberty

Taken

Dew depends not on Parliament.

Depends

Dew

Parliament

Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of God and nature, by the common law, and by act of parliament, (exclusive of all charters from the crown) entitled to all the natural, essential, inherent and inseparable rights of our fellow subjects in Great- Britain.

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Law

Rights

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Dew

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Dying

Eugenics

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Freedom

Government

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Hero

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House

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Legislature

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Murder

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Quotes by James Otis

James Otis

[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

A man’s house is his castle.

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

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience’ sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

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

Dew depends not on Parliament.

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