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For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise.

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
Writer
New York City
New York
Harry Edson Browne
Looking
Political
Forewarned
Nothing
Libertarianism
Insecure
Libertarian
Promise
Security
Liberty

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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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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.
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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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If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at all.
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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.
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America rules the world - by force.
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We may not always recognize it, but government plays a bigger role in our lives than any other single person or institution. We spend nearly half of our lives working to pay for it. Children spend more time in government schools than they do with their parents. Birth, death, marriage, every area of our lives feels the influence of government.
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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.
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Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.
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The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.
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You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about?
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
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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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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.
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For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
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The marketplace is a wondrous institution. It harnesses the self-interest of each of us and puts it to work for the benefit of all. And it does so without intruding upon our desires, our privacy, or our freedom. It is regulation by reality, not by coercion.
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Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors.
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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'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.
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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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