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Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be leg

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

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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. – James Otis

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Truth
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James Otis
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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. – James Otis

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Health
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Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of ones house. – James Otis

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Freedom
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legal
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Ive become so earthy. And I never was earthy. Im doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone. – Michael Moriarty

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legal

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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legal

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. – Felix Frankfurter

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legal

You cant learn everything you need to know legally. – John Irving

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legal

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Id like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me. – Fred Savage

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