Harry Browne Quotes About Politicians

Quotes about: Politicians

• Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

  Harry Browne

  Children, Fighting, Government

• The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

  Harry Browne

  Funny, Sarcastic, Integrity

• It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Giving, Important

• No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.

  Harry Browne

  Believe, Marijuana, People

  "Liberty A to Z". p. 55. Book by Harry Browne, 2004.

• Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Human Nature, Politician

• Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron project in India.' ... After all, they're greedy businessmen and you're a selfless public servant.

  Harry Browne

  Sorry, Mean, Should Have

• When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.

  Harry Browne

  Thinking, Giving, Politician

• Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.

  Harry Browne

  Political, Would Be, Politician

• Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.

  Harry Browne

  Giving, Political, Today

• Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.

  Harry Browne

  Believe, Winning, Office

• Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives - and our individual liberties are sacrificed for the benefit of the Fatherland.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Ideas, Liberty

• Social Security is inherently unsound for the simple reason that it's a political program run by politicians for political purposes...Social Security operates on a very simple principle: the politicians take your money from you and squander it.

  Harry Browne

  Running, Simple, Political

• The best thing we can do for family values is to repeal the income tax. Then families will have the resources they need to implement their own values - and not those of the politicians. With the income tax gone, families will no longer be forced to have two breadwinners by necessity. Children will be raised better, family values will predominate, and crime will diminish. If your local school indoctrinates your child with values that are alien to you, you'll have the money to buy a private education.

  Harry Browne

  Children, School, Two

• Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom sizes in the government schools. Republican politicians want to solve the crisis by taking more of your money to provide vouchers to a handful of the poorest students in each area, paying for a part of the tuition expense at private schools. But before long this 'reform' would make those private schools indistinguishable from the government schools ... Vouchers are an excellent way for the government to increase control over private schools.

  Harry Browne

  School, Poor Education, Government

• World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

  Harry Browne

  War, World, Politician

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