108 Quotes by Walter E. Williams

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

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

In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician’s major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense that American education can be deemed a success.

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.

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

The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy.

Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

Legislators aren’t known for being rocket scientists.