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The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?
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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Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital and rent to land. In order to earn profits in free markets, entrepreneurs must identify and satisfy human wants and do so in a way that economizes on society's scarce resources.
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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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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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Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.
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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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In general, presidents and congressmen have very limited power to do good for the economy and awesome power to do bad. The best good thing that politicians can do for the economy is to stop doing bad. In part, this can be achieved through reducing taxes and economic regulation, and staying out of our lives.
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Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.
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(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement.
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The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.
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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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It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans.
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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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In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.
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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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Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government.
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Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don't know whom to blame for their calamity.
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Today's liberals wish to disarm us so they can run their evil and oppressive agenda on us. The fight against crime is just a convenient excuse to further their agenda. I don't know about you, but if you hear that Williams' guns have been taken, you'll know Williams is dead.
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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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The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.
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