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 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.

Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.

The people's safety is the law of God.

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.

My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.

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