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I have nothing against rich people. In fact, I've been struggling most of my life to join them.
Walter E. Williams
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Walter E. Williams
Age: 84 †
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
Died: 2020
Died: December 1
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Walter Edward Williams
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Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty could not have done. It has contributed to the breakdown of the black family structure and has helped establish a set of values alien to traditional values of high moral standards, hard work and achievement.
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Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.
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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.
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A caged canary is safe but not free.
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Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.
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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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Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.
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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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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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Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose scarcity is the cause of discrimination!
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In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.
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The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy.
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I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions.
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The bottom line is that the true test of one's commitment to freedom of association doesn't come when he allows people to associate in ways he approves. The true test of that commitment comes when he allows people to be free to voluntarily associate in ways he deems despicable. Forced association is not freedom of association.
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One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving one's fellow man, as it has throughout most of human history, but by serving and pleasing him.
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When the Founders thought of democracy, they saw democracy in the political sphere - a sphere strictly limited by the Constitution's well-defined and enumerated powers given the federal government. Substituting democratic decision making for what should be private decision making is nothing less than tyranny dressed up.
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After a Canadian has been referred to a specialist, the waiting list for gynecological surgery is four to 12 weeks, cataract removal 12 to 18 weeks, tonsillectomy three to 36 weeks and neurosurgery five to 30 weeks.
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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 the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.
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The global warming scare has provided a field day for politicians and others who wish to control our lives. After all, only the imagination limits the kind of laws and restrictions that can be written in the name of saving the planet.
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