Harry Browne Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

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• Profit is a reward for satisfying the desire of someone else.

  Harry Browne

  Morning, Desire, Rewards

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• Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'

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  Government, Hands, Crutches

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• I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.

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  Government, Liberty, Want

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• A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

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  Government, Liberty, Firsts

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• 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.

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  Government, Human Nature, Politician

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• Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

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  Government, Liberty, Principles

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• Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and start minding their own business.

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  Running, Giving Up, Cancer

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• Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.

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  People, Moral, Humanitarian

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• It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

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  Compassion, Giving, Liberty

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• Social Security is a fraudulent scheme in which the government collect money from you for your retirement - and immediately spend the money on something else.

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  Retirement, Government, Social

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• Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.

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  Country, Religious, Unique

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• We may not always recognize it, but government plays a bigger role in our lives than any other single person or institution. We spend nearly half of our lives working to pay for it. Children spend more time in government schools than they do with their parents. Birth, death, marriage, every area of our lives feels the influence of government.

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  Children, School, Government

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• In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties.

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  Country, War, Inspiration

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• You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about?

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  Life, Advice, Figures

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• I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, unless Congress chooses otherwise." And because there are no exceptions, I disagree with my fellow panelists who say the existing gun laws should be enforced. Those laws are unconstitutional [and] wrong - because they put you at a disadvantage to armed criminals, to whom the laws are no inconvenience.

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  Gun, Law, Political

  Second Amendment rally in Arkansas, August 8, 2000.

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• The problem is big government. If whoever controls government can impose his way upon you, you have to fight constantly to prevent the control from being harmful. With small, limited government, it doesn't much matter who controls it, because it can't do you much harm.

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  Fighting, Government, Liberty

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• But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.

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  Bullying, Hate, America

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• A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Self Reliance, Individual

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• The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.

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  Country, Rights, America

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• A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

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  Government, Trying, Liberty

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• A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

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  Political, Benefits, Libertarian

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• The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is - it's got to be more government.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Government

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• 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.

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  Children, School, Two

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• The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.

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  Choices, Imagine, Forfeit

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