The people's safety is the law of God.

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.

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

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

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.

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!