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Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

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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
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New York City
New York
Harry Edson Browne
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Profit is a reward for satisfying the desire of someone else.
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Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.
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Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron project in India.' ... After all, they're greedy businessmen and you're a selfless public servant.
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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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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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In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this?
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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 important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
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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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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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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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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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When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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