[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant, from the director of an African company to the petty chapman… — James Otis Copy Share Image
The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all man are, white or black...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 Copy Share Image
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… — James Otis Copy Share Image
These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero. — James Otis Copy Share Image
These manly sentiments, in private life, make the good citizen; in public life, the patriot and the hero. — James Otis Copy Share Image
[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before. — James Otis Copy Share Image
MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before… — James Otis Copy Share Image
I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far… — James Otis Copy Share Image
One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle. — James Otis Copy Share Image
And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given… — James Otis Copy Share Image
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