"Taxation without representation is tyranny." — James Otis
"Taxation without representation is tyranny."
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James Otis
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31 Quotes by James Otis
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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…
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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…
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Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of…
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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…
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I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for…
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Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will…
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into…
— Tom Clancy
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You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women…
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I don't want to imitate life in movies; I want to represent it. And in that representation, you use the…
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How can it be, in a country as strong and rich as this one, that tens of thousands of Americans…
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I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt…
— Phillip Lopate
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As we fell in Adam, we are saved in Christ. To deny the principle in the one case, is to…
— Charles Hodge
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These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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