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

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

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

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

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, Leaving, Pay

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

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

War, Government, Career

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

Yourself, Important, Initiative

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

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

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

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, May, Quite

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

America rules the world - by force.
Harry Browne

America, Rules, Force

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

Happiness, Person, Living

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

Sorry, Bad, American

It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
Harry Browne

Long, Decisions, Media

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.
Harry Browne

Knowledge, Place, Whatever

Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
Harry Browne

Life, Best, Government

The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
Harry Browne

English, Written, Plain

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
Harry Browne

Reason, Used, Military

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: June 17, 1933

Died: March 1, 2006

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