108 Quotes by Walter E. Williams

Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold.

I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.

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

The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

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.

Students who are alien and hostile to the education process ought to be removed. You say, “What will we do with them?” I say that’s a secondary issue. The first priority is to stop thugs from making education impossible for everyone else.

Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students who are just barely literate and computationally incompetent.

I don’t know about you, but if you hear that Williams guns have been taken, you’ll know Williams is dead.

The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?