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
fighting government liberty
The problem is big government. If whoever controls government can impose his way upon you, you have to fight constantly to prevent the control from being harmful. With small, limited government, it doesn't much matter who controls it, because it can't do you much harm.
fighting government giving
Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.
fighting gambling drug-use
There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's legal. There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare.
children fighting government
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.
dry unusual wind
The wind just hindered us today, to be honest. As dry as it is, it's not unusual at all.
favorite identify people
People can identify with the personality of their favorite bookstore.
cake confronted describe favor interfered judgment plate request suffice tried various ways
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.
hard
When those things get to burning, it's hard to get them out.
best control government life since
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.
cancer rain loss
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.
government liberty littles
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.
constitution written
The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
america whenever
Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.