James Otis Quotes About American Revolution

Quotes about: American Revolution

• No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

  James Otis

  Taxation Without Representation, Majesty, Dominion

  James Otis (1769). “A vindication of the British colonies: By James Otis, Esq; of Boston..”, p.40

• One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

  James Otis

  Men, House, Liberty

  Argument against the writs of assistance, Boston, Mass., Feb. 1761. Burton Stevenson, Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948), traces the proverb "A man's house is his castle" back to 1567 and notes legal usages of it by Sir Edward Coke in the seventeenth century. See Coke 1; Coke 8; William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 2

• [The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before.

  James Otis

  Thinking, People, Six Months

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