May It Please Your Honors: I Was

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.

Let The Consequences Be What They Will, I Am Determined To Proceed.

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.

A Man Is Accountable To No Person For His Doings.

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.