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.
James OtisThe supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.
James OtisThese manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
James OtisParliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.
James OtisEvery 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.
James Otis