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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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Harry Browne
Age: 72 †
Born: 1933
Born: June 17
Died: 2006
Died: March 1
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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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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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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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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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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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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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I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.
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Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.
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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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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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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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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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America rules the world - by force.
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
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