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From Quotes by Walter E. Williams
- Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do…
- In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.
- What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express their…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a…
- Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to secede from the…
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