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Walter E Williams Inspirational Quotes (140)

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Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.
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Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do what the tyrants think they should do.
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More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.
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Government income redistribution programs produce the same result as theft. In fact, that's what a thief does he redistributes income. The difference between government and thievery is mostly a matter of legality.
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However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words, thinking with our hearts, rather than our brains, is a surefire method to hurt those whom we wish to help.
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Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.
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Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members of our society. The only moral thing to do is to repeal it.
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If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.
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Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose scarcity is the cause of discrimination!
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit.
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According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.
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If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.
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If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.
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The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him.
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A recent study by David Green and Laura Casper, 'Delay, Denial and Dilution,' written for the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, concludes that the World Health Organization calculated that Britain has as many as 25,000 unnecessary cancer deaths a year because of under-provision of care.
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Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism.
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Cap and trade is just about the most effective tool for controlling most economic activity short of openly declaring ourselves a communist nation and it's a radical environmentalist's dream come true.
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I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
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The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.
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Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people... What [Africa] needs, the West cannot give. ...what Africans need is personal liberty...[and] guarantees of private property rights and rule of law.
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A caged canary is safe but not free.
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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.
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Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
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