Walter E. Williams Quotes

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• Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the…
• A caged canary is safe but not free.
• Today's liberals wish to disarm us so they can run their evil and oppressive agenda on us. The fight against crime is just a convenient…
• I don't know about you, but if you hear that Williams guns have been taken, you'll know Williams is dead.
• No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to…
• There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency,…
• Poverty in Egypt, or anywhere else, is not very difficult to explain. There are three basic causes: People are poor because they cannot produce anything…
• You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are…
• Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.
• 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 Congress.
• The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.
• We might think of dollars as being 'certificates of performance.' The better I serve my fellow man, and the higher the value he places on…
• Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a…
• Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!
• The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of…
• I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was more of a…
• 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 fellow man hardly…
• In general, presidents and congressmen have very limited power to do good for the economy and awesome power to do bad. The best good thing…
• Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital and rent to…
• If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house, I am not…

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