The people's safety is the law of God.

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

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

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.

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

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.

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.