47 Quotes by James Otis

I was solicited to argue this cause as Advocate-General; and, because I would not, I have been charged with desertion from my office.

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.

A man's house is his castle; and whilst he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle.

I only served with them 64 days as a mechanic in Italy,

In the third place, a person with this writ, in the daytime, may enter all houses, shops, etc., at will, and command all to assist him.

An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

Parliaments are in all cases to declare what is good for the whole; but it is not the declaration of parliament that makes it so.

A man's house is his castle.

There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.