Walter E. Williams

The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy.

— Walter E. Williams

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

— Walter E. Williams

Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.

— Walter E. Williams

Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.

— Walter E. Williams

Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold.

— Walter E. Williams

A caged canary is safe but not free.

— Walter E. Williams

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

— Walter E. Williams

If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.

— Walter E. Williams

Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

— Walter E. Williams

If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we…

— Walter E. Williams

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

— Walter E. Williams

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

— Walter E. Williams

It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans.

— Walter E. Williams

Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity.

— Walter E. Williams

“One of the things that economics brings to the analysis is explicit recognition that people will not engage in activities—including racial discrimination—no…

— Walter E. Williams

Whenever there's a tragedy involving gun use, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, the gun-control lobby and the news media seize it as another…

— Walter E. Williams

Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children;…

— Walter E. Williams

The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy…

— Walter E. Williams

(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never…

— Walter E. Williams

If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house,…

— Walter E. Williams

Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly…

— Walter E. Williams

One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving…

— Walter E. Williams

Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody…

— Walter E. Williams

Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and…

— Walter E. Williams

What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions…

— Walter E. Williams

One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie…

— Walter E. Williams

Diversity worship and multiculturalism are currency and cause for celebration at just about any college. If one is black, brown, yellow or…

— Walter E. Williams

Say that Congress legislates gasoline price controls that sets a maximum price of $1 a gallon. As sure as night follows day,…

— Walter E. Williams

Malmo, with its 280,000 residents, is Sweden's third-largest city. To see a physician, a patient must go to one of two local…

— Walter E. Williams

Poverty in Egypt, or anywhere else, is not very difficult to explain. There are three basic causes: People are poor because they…

— Walter E. Williams

“There’s more deceit and dishonesty. In 1950, I was fourteen years old and applied for a work permit for an after-school job.…

— Walter E. Williams

“One annoyance is people’s seeming inability or unwillingness to differentiate between the number zero and the letter “o.” I’ve had conversations with…

— Walter E. Williams

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the…

— Walter E. Williams

The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him.

— Walter E. Williams

Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

— Walter E. Williams

Saying the Constitution is a living document is the same as saying we don't have a Constitution.

— Walter E. Williams

Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to…

— Walter E. Williams

Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.

— Walter E. Williams

I have nothing against rich people. In fact, I've been struggling most of my life to join them.

— Walter E. Williams

The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?

— Walter E. Williams