Walter E. Williams Quotes about Liberty

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.

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.

If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.

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

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.

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.

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

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

A caged canary is safe but not free.

Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.

Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.

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."

...[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.

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.

Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold.