In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.
Walter E. WilliamsPowerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, "in government, the scum rises to the top".
Walter E. WilliamsOnce Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.
Walter E. WilliamsThere are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.
Walter E. WilliamsI have nothing against rich people. In fact, I've been struggling most of my life to join them.
Walter E. WilliamsFor the multiculturist/diversity crowd, culture, ideas, customs, arts and skills are a matter of racial membership where one has no more control over his culture than his race. That's a racist idea, but it's politically correct racism. It says that one's convictions, character and values are not determined by personal judgment and choices but genetically determined. In other words, as yesteryear's racists held: race determines identity.
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