108 Quotes by Walter E. Williams

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Multiculturalists argue that different cultural values are morally equivalent. That’s nonsense.

The global warming scare has provided a field day for politicians and others who wish to control our lives. After all, only the imagination limits the kind of laws and restrictions that can be written in the name of saving the planet.

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.”

Government schools can go for decades delivering low-quality services, and what’s the result? The people who manage it earn higher pay. It’s nearly impossible to fire the incompetents. And, taxpayers, who support the service, are given higher tax bills.

Most of our country’s serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism.

Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

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.