Walter E. Williams Quotes

The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

If you give people an opportunity for self government and freedom, most people will reach for freedom

Liberty and Independence forever.

Our liberty cannot depend on the good intention of those in power.

You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

I'm not going to impose my vision on the people of Puerto Rico.

Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.

Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.

The problem with this world is that there isn't enough liberty and freedom.

If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.

Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value.

I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately love liberty, legality, the respect for rights, but not democracy....liberty is my foremost passion. That is the truth.

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.