Harry Browne

Harry Browne
Harry Edson Brownewas an American writer, politician, and investment advisor. He was the Libertarian Party's Presidential nominee in the U.S. elections of 1996 and 2000. He is the author of 12 books that in total have sold more than 2 million copies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth17 June 1933
CountryUnited States of America
believe thinking community
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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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
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Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't make people be moral, but they believe it can end poverty. Neither group attempts to explain why government is so clumsy and destructive in one area but a paragon of efficiency and benevolence in the other.
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No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.
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The wind just hindered us today, to be honest. As dry as it is, it's not unusual at all.
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People can identify with the personality of their favorite bookstore.
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I won't try to describe the various ways I tried to get the cake plate back to her without being confronted with a request for my judgment of her cake. Suffice to say that her well-intentioned favor interfered with my own plans.
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When those things get to burning, it's hard to get them out.
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Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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From the cranberry cancer scare of the 1950s to the Alar-in-apples hysteria of the 1980s, from the "new ice age" of the 1960s to the "global warming" of the 1990s, environmental alarms almost always turn out to be false. Few non-political scientists fear ozone loss, global warming, or acid rain. These are just issues that some people hope to use to reorder the lives of the rest of us.
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A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.