Walter E. Williams

Thou shalt not steal unless thou hast a majority vote in Congress… I'm healthy; subsidized prescription drugs won't do me much good.…

— Walter E. Williams

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it…

— Walter E. Williams

Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students…

— Walter E. Williams

When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader…

— Walter E. Williams

The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal…

— Walter E. Williams

Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are…

— Walter E. Williams

Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to…

— Walter E. Williams

Today's liberals wish to disarm us so they can run their evil and oppressive agenda on us. The fight against crime is…

— Walter E. Williams

The bottom line is that if politicians weren't in the business of granting favors and exacting tribute, every single issue surrounding campaign…

— Walter E. Williams

A recent study by David Green and Laura Casper, 'Delay, Denial and Dilution,' written for the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, concludes…

— Walter E. Williams

Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the…

— Walter E. Williams

Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would…

— Walter E. Williams

Wal-Mart has become the whipping boy for political demagogues, unions and anti-traders. I suggest that they have the wrong target… Wal-Mart exists…

— Walter E. Williams

The message coming out of Washington, especially from our leftist politicians and the news media, is that we solve our budget problems…

— Walter E. Williams

Despite the miracles of capitalism, it doesn't do well in popularity polls. One of the reasons is that capitalism is always evaluated…

— Walter E. Williams

Recent school shootings have lured ill-informed Americans into a war on our Second Amendment guarantees, led by the nation's tyrants and their…

— Walter E. Williams

Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have…

— Walter E. Williams

The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum…

— Walter E. Williams

You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what…

— Walter E. Williams

True rights, such as those in our Constitution, or those considered to be natural or human rights, exist simultaneously among people. That…

— Walter E. Williams

In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is…

— Walter E. Williams

The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with…

— Walter E. Williams

There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells…

— Walter E. Williams

Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs…

— Walter E. Williams

Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people... What [Africa] needs, the West…

— Walter E. Williams

According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.

— Walter E. Williams

The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to…

— Walter E. Williams

The greatest percentage of poverty is found in female-headed households. Over 70 percent of female-headed households are poor. A large percentage of…

— Walter E. Williams

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over…

— Walter E. Williams

The global warming scare has provided a field day for politicians and others who wish to control our lives. After all, only…

— Walter E. Williams

But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do…

— Walter E. Williams

There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own…

— Walter E. Williams

If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a…

— Walter E. Williams

No human should be coerced by the state to bear the medical expense, or any other expense, for his fellow man. In…

— Walter E. Williams

As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major…

— Walter E. Williams

Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know…

— Walter E. Williams

Government schools can go for decades delivering low-quality services, and what's the result? The people who manage it earn higher pay. It's…

— Walter E. Williams

However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words,…

— Walter E. Williams

Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible…

— Walter E. Williams

Government income redistribution programs produce the same result as theft. In fact, that's what a thief does; he redistributes income. The difference…

— Walter E. Williams