“Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.James Otis
“I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.James Otis
“It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men’s liberty will soon care little for their own.James Otis