"These manly sentiments, in private life, make good……" — James Otis
"These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero."
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31 Quotes by James Otis
James Otis has 31 quotes on this site.
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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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