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

Walter E. Williams

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Walter E. Williams
Age: 84 †
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
Died: 2020
Died: December 1
Columnist
Economist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Walter Williams
Walter Edward Williams
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Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?
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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.
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Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.
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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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Recent school shootings have lured ill-informed Americans into a war on our Second Amendment guarantees, led by the nation's tyrants and their useful idiots. ... The Second Amendment was given to us as protection against tyranny by the federal government and the Congress of the United States.
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Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold.
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