"A caged canary is safe but not free." — Walter E. Williams

"A caged canary is safe but not free."

— Walter E. Williams

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80 Quotes by Walter E. Williams

Walter E. Williams has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we…
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…
Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to…
Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics.…
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…
What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making…
However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In…

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More Caged Quotes

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Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged… — Bjork
I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living… — Jim Carrey
I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And… — Morgan Freeman
In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged. — Dennis Rodman
Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty… — Florence Ellinwood Allen
A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from… — Chuck Baldwin
But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams. — Maya Angelou
I know why the caged bird sings. — Maya Angelou
When I have a girlfriend, I feel caged in, I don't know why — Scott Baio
Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key… — Morgan Freeman
I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it… — Arthur Darvill
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His… — Colin McGinn

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