Walter E. Williams Quotes

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind

Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than in Washington. If I do not like what my local community does, be it in sewage disposal, or zoning, or schools, I can move to another local community, and though few may take this step, the mere possibility acts as a check. If I do not like what Washington imposes, I have few alternatives in this world of jealous nations.

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Socialism means slavery.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

Within the Russian system, everything depends on the character of those few who hold full power in their hands. The position of the individual within present-day Russia has been described as follows: far-reaching economic security by sacrificing personal liberty.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Which is better, to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or by three thousand tyrants not a mile away?

Extensive and organized power over large populations does not suffice to make a nation

To live under a tyranny is to live without high thought, a life worse than the animals, for what is tyranny but a government framed with the express object of making men so base and vile that they do not know whether they are awake or asleep in the world?

When the people are sheep, the government is always a wolf.

An oppressive government is worse than a man-eating tiger.

When the tyranny of the state is combined with the hypocrisy of the church, you have a modern example of the twin vultures that have devoured man, and his rights, throughout the ages.