# Walter E. Williams on Libertarians and Liberty **URL:** **By** Walter E. Williams **Published:** March 23, 1991 --- Walter E. Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is an expert on discrimination, labor policy, regulation, and South Africa as well as a well-known columnist and the author of _South Africa's War Against Capitalism_ (1989), _The State Against Blacks_ (1982), and _More Liberty Means Less Government_ (1999). In this lecture given at a Libertarian Party of Georgia event in 1991, Williams talks about libertarianism generally and relates his own moral arguments against state coercion. Williams also briefly suggests a few things he thinks libertarians should be doing if they want the libertarian movement to grow.