“Your Honours will find in the old book, concerning the office of a justice of peace, precedents of general warrants to search suspected houses. But in more modern books you will find only special warrants to search such and such houses specially named, in which the complainant has before sworn he suspects his goods are concealed; and you will find it adjudged that special warrants only are legal. In the same manner I rely on it, that the writ prayed for in this petition being general is illegal. It is a power that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer.”
"A man's house is his castle."
- James Otis
Belief
"And I take this opportunity to declare, that …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. It appears to me…the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty, and the fundamental principles of the constitution, that ever was found in an English law-book."
- James Otis
Courage
"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
Liberation
"Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty, is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle; and while he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle. This writ [of assistance], if it should be declared legal, would totally annihilate this privilege."
- James Otis
Liberation
"An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness."
- Elbert Hubbard
Liberation
"Loyal customers, they don’t just come back, they don’t simply recommend you—they insist that their friends do business with you."
- Chip Bell
Liberation
"You don’t earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day."
- Jeffrey Gitomer
Liberation
"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."
Liberation
"Where liberty is, there is my country."
- Benjamin Franklin
Liberation