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

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

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.

The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

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.

Dew depends not on Parliament.