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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
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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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Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.
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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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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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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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Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives - and our individual liberties are sacrificed for the benefit of the Fatherland.
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The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.
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It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that compassion.
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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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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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The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.
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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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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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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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Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.
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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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I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.
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Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.
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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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