Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 318 of my late, great colleague Walter Williams’s 2015 book, American Contempt for Liberty, which is a collection of many of Walter’s columns and essays; this quotation specifically is from Walter’s April 27th, 2011, syndicated column, “Smugglers as Heroes“:

[K]eeping in mind that not everything illegal is immoral and not everything legal is moral … smugglers are heroes of sorts. The essence of what a smuggler offers is: “Government tyrants want to either prevent or interfere with peaceable voluntary exchange among individuals. I can reduce the impact of that interference.”