Harry Browne Quotes

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

Family, Government, Children

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
Harry Browne

Life, Everything, Leaving

You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.
Harry Browne

Best, Yourself, Person

A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
Harry Browne

Judge, Fair, Rules

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
Harry Browne

Good, Experience, Everyone

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.
Harry Browne

Country, America, Free

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
Harry Browne

Government, Society, Simple

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
Harry Browne

War, Government, Career

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

Give, Makes, Anyone

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
Harry Browne

Knowledge, Everything, May

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
Harry Browne

Yourself, Important, Initiative

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
Harry Browne

Mind, Others, Compassion

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.
Harry Browne

Moral, Concerned, Truly

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
Harry Browne

Truth, War, Known

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
Harry Browne

Great, Realized, Burden

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

Power, Society, Political

America rules the world - by force.
Harry Browne

America, Rules, Force

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.
Harry Browne

Hate, America, Reason

Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.
Harry Browne

Decisions, Minds, Needs

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.
Harry Browne

Country, Others, Else

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

Happiness, Person, Living

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

Work, Nature, Good

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

History, Liberty, Both

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.
Harry Browne

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, Government, Gun

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 17, 1933

Died: March 1, 2006

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