It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I have nothing against rich people. In fact, I've been struggling most of my life to join them. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal;… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Many of the wonderful achievements of the 20th century were the result of the pursuit of profits. Unfortunately, demagoguery has led to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that the true test of one's commitment to freedom of association doesn't come when he allows people to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
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 and prospers… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
When the Founders thought of democracy, they saw democracy in the political sphere - a sphere strictly limited by the Constitution's well-defined and enumerated… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Reaching into one's own pocket to assist his fellow man is noble and worthy of praise. Reaching into another person's pocket to assist one's… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending is. Since… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Students who are alien and hostile to the education process ought to be removed. You say, "What will we do with them?" I say… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that the true test of one's commitment to freedom of association doesn't come when he allows people to associate in… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
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