MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

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

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.

Dew depends not on Parliament.

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

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.