Walter E. Williams Quotes

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• I believe our nation is at a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other Americans and those…
• Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members of our society.…
• The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision…
• Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism.
• Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of…
• When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader and 9 percent…
• If we're ignorant of the historical sacrifices that made our liberties possible, we will be less likely to make the sacrifices again so that those…
• It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance the war, but…
• No matter how much of our liberty Washington takes away in the name of security, there are no guarantees that there won't be another terrorist…
• The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of our Constitution, was…
• I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions.
• I believe in helping our fellow man in need. I believe that reaching into your own pockets to help someone in need is praiseworthy and…
• The only way Congress can get one dollar to spend is to take that one dollar from Americans, borrow that one dollar from Americans, or…
• If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.
• If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.
• There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help…
• Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons,…
• Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral.…
• We should view our government the way we should a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he's friendly and cuddly shouldn't blind us to the fact…
• Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

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