The people's safety is the law of God.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

[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.

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

Every 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.

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