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Liberty Quotes by Walter E. Williams
- Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.
- 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…
- Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.
- The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary…
- Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody…
- 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.
- How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people like or dislike…
- 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…
- However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words, thinking with our…
- If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something…
- If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we had better do…
- 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…
- In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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,…
- 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…
More Liberty Quotes
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once… — Michele Bachmann
- If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and… — Michele Bachmann
- It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton