Quotes from Walter E. Williams

Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

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.

But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.

I have nothing against rich people. In fact, I've been struggling most of my life to join them.

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

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.

Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.

Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.

If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we had better do it soon.

As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.