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Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.

Harry Browne

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Harry Browne
Age: 72 †
Born: 1933
Born: June 17
Died: 2006
Died: March 1
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New York City
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Harry Edson Browne
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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.
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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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Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.
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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.
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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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Security ... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.
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If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it.
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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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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.
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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?
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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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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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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Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.
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Once we realize that government doesn't work, we'll know that the only way to improve government is by reducing its size - by doing away with laws, by getting rid of programs, by making government spend and tax less, by reducing government as far as we can.
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Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.
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The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
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