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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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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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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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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate. – Caleb Cushing

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Ive thought hard about my psychological connections and I think Ive managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political. – Alan Dershowitz

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legal

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. – Jeremy Bentham

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legal

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens. – Plato

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