Harry Browne Quotes - Page 5

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• Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

  Harry Browne

  Feels, Persons

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• The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

  Harry Browne

  Giving Up, Mean, Choices

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• Get your money out of the country before your country gets your money out of you

  Harry Browne

  Country

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• I am running for President because it is obvious that no Democrat or Republican is ever going to stop the relentless growth of the federal government. Only a Libertarian will free you from the income tax.

  Harry Browne

  Running, Government, Growth

  Harry Browne's Acceptance Speech at the Libertarian National Convention in Anaheim, California, www.harrybrowne.org. July 2, 2000.

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• 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

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• 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

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• When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

  Harry Browne

  Meaningful, People, Giving

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• I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

  Harry Browne

  War, Gun, Rights

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• America rules the world - by force.

  Harry Browne

  America, World, Force

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• For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

  Harry Browne

  Liberty, Threat, Enjoyed

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• I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.

  Harry Browne

  Temptation, Promise, Trying

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• While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist.

  Harry Browne

  People, Important, Want

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• If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

  Harry Browne

  War, Men, Years

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• Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?

  Harry Browne

  Thinking, Government, Liberty

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• 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

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• I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.

  Harry Browne

  Sorry, Years, Fingers

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• 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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