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

Dew depends not on Parliament..

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

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm..

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 lightnin….

No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent..

Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution of 1688; nor on pro….

What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!.

[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 ….

A man is accountable to no person for his doings..

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,….

Taxation without representation is tyranny..

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 instrument….

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 th….

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

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who hav….

The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all man are, white or black...It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away ot….

There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be ….

Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty, is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle; and while he is quiet, he is a….

I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natu….