Every One With This Writ May Be

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.

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.

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.

[slave] Trade ... Is The Most Shocking Violation Of The Law Of Nature, Has A Direct Tendency To Diminish ... Liberty, And Makes Every Dealer In It A Tyrant, From The Director Of An African Company To The Petty Chapman [peddler].... It Is A Clear Truth, That Those Who Every Day Barter Away Other Men's Liberty Will Soon Care Little For Their Own.

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.