I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.

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.

And I take this opportunity to declare, that... 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. It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, - the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book.

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

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

These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

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.