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

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

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

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

— 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

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

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

...[I]f we care about our remaining liberties we must at some point draw a line in the sand and let politicians and…

— 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

If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.

— Walter E. Williams

"Cap and trade" is just about the most effective tool for controlling most economic activity short of openly declaring ourselves a communist…

— Walter E. Williams

The reason why the world's leftists give the world' s most horrible murderers a pass is because they sympathize with their socioeconomic…

— 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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