Walter E. Williams Quotes

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

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.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers … call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant.

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.

But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long century, and we've had enough of them.

But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

Government is waging war against the people.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

All executive power --- from the reign of ancient kings to the rule of modern dictators --- has the outward appearance of efficiency

Tyrants of our day are the most dangerous preachers of liberty.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty

At times it is necessary for a country to have, for a time, some form or other of dictatorial power..

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

Were we ever to find ourselves living under a totalitarian regime, place no faith in the mercy of your fellow citizens.

Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.

History tells you if dictators are not stopped in time, they cause more damage.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding.