Walter E. Williams Quotes About Economics

• In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

  Walter E. Williams

  Responsibility, Government, Liberty

• Entre tres quintos y dos tercios del presupuesto federal consisten en quitar propiedades a un estadounidense para dárselas a otro. Si un particular hiciera lo mismo, lo llamaríamos robo. Cuando lo hace el gobierno, lo llamamos eufemísticamente redistribución de la renta, pero eso es exactamente lo que hacen los ladrones: redistribuir la renta. La redistribución de la renta no sólo traiciona la visión de los fundadores, sino que es un pecado a los ojos de Dios.

  Walter E. Williams

  Ojo, Dos, Gobierno

  "Bogus Right" por Walter E. Williams, econfaculty.gmu.edu. 8 de febrero de 2006.

• Si una persona tiene derecho a algo que no se ha ganado, es necesario que otra persona no tenga derecho a algo que sí se ha ganado.

  Walter E. Williams

  Libertad, Economía, Personas

  Walter E. Williams (2015). "American Contempt for Liberty", p.284, Hoover Institution Press.

• Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff - watch out!

  Walter E. Williams

  Equality, Should Have, Taught Us

• Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a United States with political power centralized in Washington, powerful government agencies with detailed information on Americans and compliant states or power widely dispersed over 50 states, thousands of local jurisdictions and a limited federal government?

  Walter E. Williams

  Powerful, Agency, Government

• Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.

  Walter E. Williams

  Liberty, Economic, Increase

• However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words, thinking with our hearts, rather than our brains, is a surefire method to hurt those whom we wish to help.

  Walter E. Williams

  Hurt, Heart, Men

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays”, p.257, Hoover Press

• La riqueza procede de los esfuerzos individuales por complacer al prójimo... en eso consiste la competencia: "superar" a tus competidores para ganarte a los consumidores.

  Walter E. Williams

  Éxito, Ganar, Hombres

• Conservadores y liberales son almas gemelas en lo que respecta al gasto público. En primer lugar, debemos entender qué es el gasto público. Puesto que el gobierno no tiene recursos propios, y puesto que no existe un Ratoncito Pérez que entregue al Congreso los fondos para los programas que promulga, nos vemos obligados a reconocer que el gasto público no es otra cosa que la confiscación de la propiedad de una persona para dársela a otra a la que no pertenece: en efecto, un robo legalizado.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, Giving, Liberty

  "Todo lo que hace falta son agallas". Libro de Walter E. Williams, 1987.

• Para mantener a los estadounidenses mal educados, mal informados y constitucionalmente ignorantes, el sistema educativo ha sido el principal y más fiel socio de los políticos. En este sentido, la educación estadounidense puede considerarse un éxito.

  Walter E. Williams

  Fiel, Ignorante, Libertad

• The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary things with which we agree. The true test comes when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary things with which we disagree.

  Walter E. Williams

  Compromiso, Derechos, Personas

  Walter E. Williams (2013). “More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well”, p.203, Hoover Press

• What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express their preferences. When you hear someone say that he doesn't trust the market, and wants to replace it with government edicts, he's really calling for a switch from a democratic process to a totalitarian one.

  Walter E. Williams

  Gobierno, Personas, Decisión

• Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right to defend ourselves against predators. Since we possess that right, we can delegate authority to government to defend us. By contrast, we don't have a natural right to take the property of one person to give to another; therefore, we cannot legitimately delegate such authority to government.

  Walter E. Williams

  Rights, Government, Giving

• Nada en nuestra Constitución sugiere que el gobierno sea un otorgante de derechos. Por el contrario, el gobierno es un protector de los derechos.

  Walter E. Williams

  Derechos, Gobierno, Libertad

  Walter E. Williams (2013). "La libertad frente a la tiranía del socialismo: Ensayos controvertidos", p.110, Hoover Press.

• How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people like or dislike you. In order to produce a successful life, one must find ways to please his fellow man. That is, find out what goods and services his fellow man values, and is willing to pay for, and then acquire the necessary skills and education to provide it.

  Walter E. Williams

  Successful, Men, Order

• Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.

  Walter E. Williams

  Powerful, Law, Liberty

• According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.

  Walter E. Williams

  Years, Cost, Economics

• Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want government to step in to bail out creditors and borrowers at the expense of taxpayers who prudently managed their affairs. These financial problems are not market failures but government failure. ... The credit crunch and foreclosure problems are failures of government policy.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, Credit, Debt

• All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.

  Walter E. Williams

  Money, Watches, Irs

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