Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.
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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.James Otis
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.
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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.
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I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
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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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It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
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