William S. Burroughs Quotes
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My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.
Olympia Snowe -
Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
Hank Johnson -
But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
H. Rap Brown -
I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.
Pat Nixon -
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
Rand Paul
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry -
The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
Salmon P. Chase -
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
Frances Wright -
The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
Orrin Hatch -
Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
Iris Chang
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I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan can continue to succeed and grow. Instead of having people migrate from Saskatchewan, they will be migrating to Saskatchewan.
N. Murray Edwards -
There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
Barbara Castle -
I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
Lajos Kossuth -
If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.
Dan Gertler -
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
Orson Welles -
Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.
Nazanin Boniadi
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I do take law very seriously, deeply seriously, because fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.
Felix Frankfurter -
It's challenges like this that require you to have experienced, competent people in the government, and... a President willing to listen.
Ronald Klain -
I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.
George W. Norris -
The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.
Ted Nelson -
I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
Adam Jones -
Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.
William S. Burroughs