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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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Walter E. Williams
Age: 84 †
Born: 1936
Born: March 31
Died: 2020
Died: December 1
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Walter Williams
Walter Edward Williams
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Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.
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The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.
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There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.
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All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.
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Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.
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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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As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.
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The message coming out of Washington, especially from our leftist politicians and the news media, is that we solve our budget problems by raising taxes on the rich. If Americans were more informed, such a message would be insulting to our intelligence. There are not enough rich people to satisfy Congress' appetite.
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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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Many of the wonderful achievements of the 20th century were the result of the pursuit of profits. Unfortunately, demagoguery has led to profits becoming a dirty word. Nonprofit is seen as more righteous, particularly when people pompously stand before us and declare, 'We're a nonprofit organization.'
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Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.
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Government schools can go for decades delivering low-quality services, and what's the result? The people who manage it earn higher pay. It's nearly impossible to fire the incompetents. And, taxpayers, who support the service, are given higher tax bills.
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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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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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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.
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