"It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own."
-James Otis
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"It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.“
-James Otis
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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."
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"Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm."
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"A man's house is his castle."
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"Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house."
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"I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth."
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