"Charity is reaching into one's own pockets to……" — Walter E. Williams
"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 qualifies as charity. When done privately, we deem it theft, and the individual risks jail time."
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Walter E. Williams
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80 Quotes by Walter E. Williams
Walter E. Williams has 80 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we…
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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…
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Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to…
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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.…
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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…
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What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making…
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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 Assist Quotes
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge…
— Mary Astell
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People think that coaches are always right, but it's difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner…
— Jim Brown
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The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.
— Warren Christopher
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You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have…
— Hojo Shigetoki
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I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The…
— John Dewey
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Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money…
— Maimonides
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Multi-sensory perception is also the ability to see meaning in everyday experiences...You have non-physical guides and teachers. You access them…
— Gary Zukav
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Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.
— Thomas a Kempis
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I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.
— Jenny Shipley
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I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about…
— Beyonce Knowles
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Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the…
— Lysander Spooner
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