Walter E. Williams Quotes

The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.

With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People...ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to.

But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything.

Really what it gets down to is that my idea of the American life, the American dream, whatever, is that I can do what I wish in the privacy of my own home. And as long as I'm not hurting anyone, no one has a right to know what I do. The main thing that I have to hide is that I don't have anything to hide.

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation.

I believe everybody got the right to live their own life the way they want to.

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

There should be no hindrance to what we want to do, what we want to wear, what we think and how we want to travel. Do what you want to do as long as you are not breaking any law.

I'm a big believer in freedom and people's rights to express themselves and not have government interfere in that type of thing.

Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

For so I created them free and free they must remain.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

I should be very sorry to see the United States holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person might hold. It is a fundamental tenet of our institutions that people have a right to believe what they want to believe and hold such opinions as they want to hold without having to answer to anyone for their private opinion.

[People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.

People should be allowed to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own home or their own hotel room.

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.