Walter E. Williams

Students who are alien and hostile to the education process ought to be removed. You say, "What will we do with them?"…

— Walter E. Williams

Charity is reaching into one's own pockets to assist his fellow man in need. Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's…

— Walter E. Williams

If we're ignorant of the historical sacrifices that made our liberties possible, we will be less likely to make the sacrifices again…

— Walter E. Williams

The only way Congress can get one dollar to spend is to take that one dollar from Americans, borrow that one dollar…

— Walter E. Williams

We will not make inroads into the gun-violence problem until we acknowledge the underlying causes of youth behavior today, compared to yesterday.…

— Walter E. Williams

I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was…

— Walter E. Williams

Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private…

— Walter E. Williams

In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our…

— Walter E. Williams

When the Founders thought of democracy, they saw democracy in the political sphere - a sphere strictly limited by the Constitution's well-defined…

— Walter E. Williams

In general, presidents and congressmen have very limited power to do good for the economy and awesome power to do bad. The…

— Walter E. Williams

When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more…

— Walter E. Williams

Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital…

— Walter E. Williams

Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.' And, it was Albert Einstein…

— Walter E. Williams

It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance…

— Walter E. Williams

School choice opponents are also dishonest when they speak of saving public schools. A Heritage Foundation survey found that 47 percent of…

— Walter E. Williams

There is no question that if one were to ask whether we Americans are moving towards more liberty or more government control…

— Walter E. Williams

“Some say it's wrong to profit from the misfortune of others. I ask my students whether they'd support a law against doing…

— Walter E. Williams

People who denounce the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior…

— Walter E. Williams

In explaining the Constitution, James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, wrote in Federalist Paper 45: 'The powers delegated by the…

— Walter E. Williams

The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of…

— Walter E. Williams

Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty…

— Walter E. Williams

It is not wise for us to permit a few people on the Federal Reserve Board to have life and death power…

— Walter E. Williams

Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal…

— Walter E. Williams

We might think of dollars as being 'certificates of performance.' The better I serve my fellow man, and the higher the value…

— Walter E. Williams

How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people…

— Walter E. Williams

For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no…

— Walter E. Williams

I believe our nation is at a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other…

— Walter E. Williams

The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the…

— Walter E. Williams

Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which…

— Walter E. Williams

So what's the difference between republican and democratic forms of government? John Adams captured the essence of the difference when he said,…

— Walter E. Williams

No matter how much of our liberty Washington takes away in the name of security, there are no guarantees that there won't…

— Walter E. Williams

Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want…

— Walter E. Williams

I believe in helping our fellow man in need. I believe that reaching into your own pockets to help someone in need…

— Walter E. Williams