Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

The people's safety is the law of God.

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.

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.

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.

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.