These Manly Sentiments, In Private

I Pray God I May Never Be Brought To The Melancholy Trial, But If Ever I Should, It Will Be Then Known How Far I Can Reduce To Practice, Principles, Which I Know To Be Founded In Truth.

An Act Against The Constitution Is Void; An Act Against Natural Equity Is Void.

Every British Subject Born On The Continent Of America, Or In Any Other Of The British Dominions, Is By The Law Of God And Nature, By The Common Law, And By Act Of Parliament, (exclusive Of All Charters From The Crown) Entitled To All The Natural, Essential, Inherent And Inseparable Rights Of Our Fellow Subjects In Great- Britain.

And I Take This Opportunity To Declare, That... 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. It Appears To Me The Worst Instrument Of Arbitrary Power, - The Most Destructive Of English Liberty And The Fundamental Principles Of Law, That Ever Was Found In An English Law Book.

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.