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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.
Harry Browne
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Harry Browne
Age: 72 †
Born: 1933
Born: June 17
Died: 2006
Died: March 1
Financial Analyst
Peace Activist
Politician
Radio Personality
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New York City
New York
Harry Edson Browne
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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.
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Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.
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Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.
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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.
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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.
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When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.
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I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.
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For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise.
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Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.
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Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.
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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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I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.
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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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The coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others -- summoning the worst dregs of society to Washington to use that power to impose their will upon others.
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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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