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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.
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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Economist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Walter Williams
Walter Edward Williams
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Multiculturalists argue that different cultural values are morally equivalent. That's nonsense.
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If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.
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Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.
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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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Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
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The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with motives than with results.
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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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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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The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.
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Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff - watch out!
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