"Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the……" — Walter E. Williams
"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 the way of education about what our Constitution means and why it was written. Thus, we've fallen easy prey to charlatens, quacks, and hustlers."
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Walter E. Williams
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80 Quotes by Walter E. Williams
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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 Coercion Quotes
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social…
— Noam Chomsky
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we…
— James A. Baldwin
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The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
— Anthony Gregory
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History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents....…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary…
— Ayn Rand
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or…
— Milton Friedman
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use…
— Milton Friedman
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