Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.

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.

Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty, is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle; and while he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle. This writ of assistance, if it should be declared legal, would totally annihilate this privilege.

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

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

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

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.