Walter E. Williams Quotes - Page 5

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• True rights, such as those in our Constitution, or those considered to be natural or human rights, exist simultaneously among people. That means exercise of a right by one person does not diminish those held by another.

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  Mean, Exercise, Rights

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.283, Hoover Institution Press

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• Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members of our society. The only moral thing to do is to repeal it.

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  Opportunity, Law, Employment

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• 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.

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  Rights, Government, Giving

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• The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy.

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  Benefits, Belief, Destruction

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• If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.

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  School, College, Degrees

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.208, Hoover Institution Press

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• It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans.

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  People, Better Life, Seeking

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• No human should be coerced by the state to bear the medical expense, or any other expense, for his fellow man. In other words, the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another is morally offensive.

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  Men, Purpose, Use

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.100, Hoover Press

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• It was Thomas Jefferson who said that we should not allow the courts to have a monopoly on the interpretation of what is constitutional and what is not.

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  Monopoly, Should, Court

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• Wal-Mart has become the whipping boy for political demagogues, unions and anti-traders. I suggest that they have the wrong target.... Wal-Mart exists and prospers because tens of millions of Americans find Wal-Mart to be a suitable source of goods and services..... unions and anti-traders should direct their outrage and condemnation at the tens of millions of Americans who shop at Wal-Mart and keep it in business.

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  Boys, Political, Target

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• The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government.

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  Government, Abuse, Normal

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• An increasing amount of climate research suggests a possibility of global cooling.

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  Climate, Research, Possibility

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• 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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  Men, Jail Time, Risk

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.112, Hoover Press

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• Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital and rent to land. In order to earn profits in free markets, entrepreneurs must identify and satisfy human wants and do so in a way that economizes on society's scarce resources.

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  Order, Land, Entrepreneur

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.351, Hoover Institution Press

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• Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don't know whom to blame for their calamity.

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  Simple, Tariffs, Blame

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.209, Hoover Press

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• 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."

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  Office, Giving, Liberty

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• The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.

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  Christian, Party, Political

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• ...[I]f we care about our remaining liberties we must at some point draw a line in the sand and let politicians and bureaucrats know we will not tolerate further encroachment on our God-given rights to liberty.

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  Rights, Liberty, Care

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• 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.

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  Law, Rights, People

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• 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.

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  Government, Giving, Liberty

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

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• If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.

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  Today, Constitution, Framers

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• No matter how much of our liberty Washington takes away in the name of security, there are no guarantees that there won't be another terrorist attack. Instead of attacking American liberties, the government ought to go after terrorists in their countries of origin. It should be like what our military attempted during WWII. Don't wait to defend ships against the kamikaze -- bomb the fields where they take off.

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  Country, Military, Government

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• I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions.

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  Intention, Policy, Effects

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• Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!

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  Choices, Scarcity, Causes

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• Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity.

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  Men, Pockets, Charity

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.112, Hoover Press

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• Thou shalt not steal unless thou hast a majority vote in Congress.... I'm healthy; subsidized prescription drugs won't do me much good. I'd be willing to forego my prescription drugs if Congress would force some young American to mow my lawn.

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  Majority Vote, Drug, Healthy

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