"Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great……" — Walter E. Williams

"Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man."

— Walter E. Williams

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.
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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I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of… — Christian Bale
For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and… — Hans Cloos
We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical… — Donald Rumsfeld
We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can… — David Mamet
Affirm for yourself that you are a success. Affirm that you are successful in getting rid of your clutter. If… — Emmet Fox
That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not… — Vartan Gregorian
As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores… — Horace Mann
I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills. — Iris Chang
The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't… — Jonathan Messinger
Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth. — Muhammad Ali
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with… — Petrarch
The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily… — George Soros

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