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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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It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other mens liberty will soon care little for their own. – James Otis

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Men
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My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning. – James Otis

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Hope
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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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Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administrations current policy affects that legality 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government. – Roger Wicker

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Well, when I think of steroids I think of an image. You have the advantage over someone, which is a form of cheating. I guess it wouldnt be right unless it was legal for everybody. Reason its not legal for everybody is because it can hurt people seriously. – Evander Holyfield

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Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpires eye or on the ball. – James Patrick Murray

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The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters. – Tom Tancredo

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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. – Matthew Arnold

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee. – Proverb

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What could become a danger to world peace is Irans nuclear program and the countrys open threat to annihilate Israel. – Sigmar Gabriel

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