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Walter E. Williams has 76 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.
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Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private…
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Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have…
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Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.
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The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to…
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Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody…
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Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would…
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In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.
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Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.
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How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people…
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What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions…
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However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words,…
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Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
— Frederic Bastiat
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No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason…
— Samuel Adams
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Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have…
— Walter E. Williams
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By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
— Thomas Jefferson
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A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he…
— Thomas Paine
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The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it.…
— Samuel Ruiz
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