William S. Burroughs Quotes

Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.

William S. Burroughs

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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
  • People
  • Government
  • Turn

• Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Government
  • Promise
  • Generation

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• 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
  • Life
  • Law
  • Husband

• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Law
  • Me
  • Joy

• The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Down
  • Privacy

• 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
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.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
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Law

• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Soul
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • American
  • Government
  • Nation

• Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Today
  • Hand
  • Government

• 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
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Law

• 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
  • People
  • Government
  • Grow

• 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
  • People
  • Law
  • Very

• I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • People
  • Government
  • Congress

• America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Why
  • America
  • Government

• If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Problem
  • Government
  • Value

• Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Law
  • Government
  • Natural

• The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

  

  Jack Cade
  • Law
  • Color
  • Equity

• To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Life
  • Men
  • Home

• At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Leader
  • Stage
  • Orchestra

• 'We're very close to immortal, you know. The time mechanism keeps it that way.' 'No, I hadn't known,' said Boone. 'Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it.'

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Time
  • Age

• Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

  

  George Washington
  • Worry
  • Trouble
  • Interest

• Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Law
  • Government
  • Liberty