Walter E. Williams Quotes

But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?

Liberty: Give to every man the fruit of his own labor -- the labor of his hands and of his brain.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

Moral principles of liberty that endow a person with the right to claim and acquire property at the same time oblige that person to respect every other person’s equal right to do the same.

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions.

In America, our origins matter less than our destinations and that is what democracy is all about.

We believe in a government that trusts people and doesn't limit where you finish because of where you started.

I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.

The naturally advantaged are not to gain merely because they are more gifted, but only to cover the costs of training and education and for using their endowments in ways that help the less fortunate as well.

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of that sovereign justice which is called the State ; but it is not true, it is against all tho laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.

To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years. I have failed in this endeavour or rather, have reached the conclusion that, with reference to society of free men, the phrase has no meaning whatever.

Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?