The Supreme Power Cannot Take From Any

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 Law, That Ever Was Found In An English Law Book.

Every One With This Writ May Be A Tyrant In A Legal Manner, Also May Control, Imprison, Or Murder Any One Within The Realm.

Government Is Founded Not On Force, As Was The Theory Of Hobbes; Nor On Compact, As Was The Theory Of Locke And Of The Revolution Of 1688; Nor On Property, As Was The Assertion Of Harrington. It Springs From The Necessities Of Our Nature, And Has An Everlasting Foundation In The Unchangeable Will Of God.

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.

What Must Be The Wealth That Avarice, Aided By Power, Cannot Exhaust!