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James Otis

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

Source : 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

James Otis

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“Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.”
“I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.”
“The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.”
“Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.”
“Today is today. But there are many tomorrows”
“The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.”

Source : "Elmer Gantry". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1927.
“Each of us is born to follow a star, be it bright and shining or dark and fated. Sometimes the path of these stars will cross, bringing love or hatred. However, if you look up at the skies on a clear night, out of all the countless lights that twinkle and shine, there will come one. That star will be seen in a blaze, burning a path of light across the roof of the earth, a great comet.”

Source : Brian Jacques (2004). “Outcast of Redwall: A Tale from Redwall”, p.12, Penguin
“Texas senator and tea party favorite Ted Cruz announced he's running for president. He pledged to lead America boldly forward into the 1950s.”

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

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