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 free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

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 other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

The people's safety is the law of God.

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

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

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.