James Q. Wilson Quotes

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. - James Q. Wilson

We know from Census Bureau surveys that something beyond a hundred thousand uses of guns for self-defense occur every year. We know from smaller surveys of a commercial nature that the number may be as high as two-and-a-half or three million. We don't know what the right number is, but whatever the right number is, it's not a trivial number. - James Q. Wilson

Untended property becomes fair game for people out for fun or plunder and even for people who ordinarily would not dream of doing such things and who probably consider themselves law- abiding. - James Q. Wilson

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want. - James Q. Wilson

There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now. - James Q. Wilson

There are no more liberals They've all been mugged. - James Q. Wilson

The most important change in how one defines the public interest that I have witnessed . . . over the last twenty years has been a deepening concern for the development of character in the citizenry. - James Q. Wilson

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims. - James Q. Wilson

Nobody cares, if you break some more windows nobody's going to do anything about it in short, anything goes. - James Q. Wilson

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue. - James Q. Wilson

Page 1 of 3

Next -> Last ->>