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One 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We might think of dollars as being 'certificates of performance.' The better I serve my fellow man, and the higher the value he places on…
- Charity is reaching into one's own pockets to assist his fellow man in need. Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Diversity worship and multiculturalism are currency and cause for celebration at just about any college. If one is black, brown, yellow or white, the prevailing…
- For the multiculturist/diversity crowd, culture, ideas, customs, arts and skills are a matter of racial membership where one has no more control over his culture…
- The bottom line is that the true test of one's commitment to freedom of association doesn't come when he allows people to associate in ways…
- 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…
- OUR REFRIGERATOR IS FULL OF FOOD YET WE SAY WE HAVE NOTHING TO EAT. OUR CLOSET FULL OF CLOTHES YET WE SAY WE HAVE NOTHING…
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