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• The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all man are, white or black...It is a clear truth that…
• Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?
• Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of…
• Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that…
• 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,…
• Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and…
• An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.
• [The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives…
• No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.
• And I take this opportunity to declare, that ...I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God…
• Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty, is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle;…

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