I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial, but if ever I should, it will be then known how far I can reduce to practice, principles, which I know to be founded in truth.
James Otis[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before.
James OtisThe supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.
James OtisEvery 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.
James Otis