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Government 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…
- Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right…
- Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a…
- In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.
- Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.
- 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…
- Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in…
- Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in…
- Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to…
- Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government…
- The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.
- 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 believe our nation is at a point where there are enough irreconcilable differences between those Americans who want to control other Americans and those…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million…
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- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida