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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."

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"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."

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"Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue."

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"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

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"As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture."

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"Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldn't be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason it's not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously."

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"You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it."

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"Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics."

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"The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen."

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"I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction."

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"Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you're in the legal system like that, it's always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that."

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"Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college."

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"These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero."
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"But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes."
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"A man is accountable to no person for his doings."
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"I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject."
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"Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house."
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"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."
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