"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."
― James Otis
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― 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."
- "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."
- "A man’s house is his castle."
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- "Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so."― Bobby Rush