James Otis
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Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.
James Otis
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
Your Honors will find in the old books concerning the office of a justice of the peace precedents of general warrants to search suspected houses.
James Otis
My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
James Otis
A man is accountable to no person for his doings.
James Otis
These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.
James Otis
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
James Otis
Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.
James Otis
