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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…
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Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?
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Every British Subject born on the continent of America, or in any other of the British dominions, is by the law of…
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Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that…
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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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I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread,…
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Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and…
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An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.
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[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives…
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No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.
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And I take this opportunity to declare, that ...I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God…
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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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The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon…
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National Health? Socialized pension funds? State-controlled television? Search and seizure laws? Forfeiture laws? If we're not living in the Soviet Union of…
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I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's…
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The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if…
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In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier…
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The American colonies, all know, were greatly opposed to taxation without representation. They were also, a less celebrated quality, equally opposed to…
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If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.
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Taxation without representation is tyranny.
— James Otis
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Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very…
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