Walter E. Williams Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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 whom it does not belong.

  Walter E. Williams

  Giving, Religion, Liberty

• 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 the same thing, we'd call it theft. When government does it, we euphemistically call it income redistribution, but that's exactly what thieves do - redistribute income. Income redistribution not only betrays the founders' vision, it's a sin in the eyes of God.

  Walter E. Williams

  Eye, Two, Government

  "Bogus Right" by Walter E. Williams, econfaculty.gmu.edu. February 8, 2006.

• There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, "Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you."

  Walter E. Williams

  Office, Giving, Liberty

• 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 farmers and insolvent banks. The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for government to confiscate one's property to give to another, the debate is over the disposition of the pillage.

  Walter E. Williams

  Believe, Thinking, Government

• 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 has no resources of its own, and since there's no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person's property to give it to another to whom it does not belong - in effect, legalized theft.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, Giving, Liberty

  "All it takes is guts". Book by Walter E. Williams, 1987.

• The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.

  Walter E. Williams

  Gun, Hunting, Ducks

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well”, p.188, Hoover Press

• 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 to defend ourselves against predators. Since we possess that right, we can delegate authority to government to defend us. By contrast, we don't have a natural right to take the property of one person to give to another; therefore, we cannot legitimately delegate such authority to government.

  Walter E. Williams

  Rights, Government, Giving

• 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 that service, the more certificates of performance he gives me. The more certificates I earn, the greater my claim on the goods my fellow man produces. That's the morality of the market. In order for one to have a claim on what his fellow man produces, he must first serve him.

  Walter E. Williams

  Men, Thinking, Order

• Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

  Walter E. Williams

  Giving, Office, Liberty

• The reason why the world's leftists give the world' s most horrible murderers a pass is because they sympathize with their socioeconomic goals, which include government ownership and/or control over the means of production. In the U.S., the call is for government control, through regulations, as opposed to ownership.

  Walter E. Williams

  Mean, Government, Giving

• If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.

  Walter E. Williams

  Rights, Hands, Giving

  "Human rights vs. property rights". www.wnd.com. August 03, 2005.

• Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.

  Walter E. Williams

  Giving, Democracy, Auras

• Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people... What [Africa] needs, the West cannot give. ...what Africans need is personal liberty...[and] guarantees of private property rights and rule of law.

  Walter E. Williams

  Law, Rights, People

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