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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.
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
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New York City
New York
Harry Edson Browne
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Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.
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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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It isn't possible to give government just a little control over the economy and our lives. Once we cede that power to government, it uses the power to take more from us. That's why every year the government controls more of our lives.
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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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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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Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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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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Get your money out of the country before your country gets your money out of you
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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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Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.
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When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.
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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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Once we realize that government doesn't work, we will stop dreaming that this or that social problem can be solved by passing a law - or by creating a new government program - or by electing someone who will make Washington more efficient or cost-conscious.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
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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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For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise.
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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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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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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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