A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

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

An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

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

I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor.

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.

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.