Walter E. Williams

A caged canary is safe but not free.

— Walter E. Williams

Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.

— Walter E. Williams

Socialism is just another form of tyranny.

— Walter E. Williams

The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy.

— Walter E. Williams

Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold.

— Walter E. Williams

Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.

— Walter E. Williams

Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.

— Walter E. Williams

The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.

— Walter E. Williams

I don't know about you, but if you hear that Williams guns have been taken, you'll know Williams is dead.

— Walter E. Williams

The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

— Walter E. Williams

Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.

— Walter E. Williams

Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!

— Walter E. Williams

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.

— Walter E. Williams

Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism.

— 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs…

— Walter E. Williams

An increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling.

— Walter E. Williams

Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.

— Walter E. Williams

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.

— Walter E. Williams

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

— Walter E. Williams

I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions.

— Walter E. Williams

All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch…

— Walter E. Williams

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

— Walter E. Williams