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James Otis

"A man is accountable to no person for his doings."

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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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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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"These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero."
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"MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance."
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"The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country."
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"Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed."
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"Taxation without representation is tyranny."
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"A man's house is his castle."
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"I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is."
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