James Otis

"One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of ones house. A mans house is his castle."

"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."

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

"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."

"The colonists are by the law of nature freeborn, as indeed all men are, white or black . . . . Does it follow that tis right to enslave a man because he is black?"