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
thinking government liberty
Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?
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.
thinking government ideas
The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is - it's got to be more government.
thinking fbi-agents rights
...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government has a 'compelling interest' in censoring the Internet. The Second Amendment doesn't say you have the right to keep and bear arms until some madman plants a bomb. The Fourth Amendment doesn't say you have the right to be secure from search and seizure unless some FBI agent thinks you fit the profile of a terrorist. The government has no right to interfere with any of these freedoms under any circumstances.
thinking giving politician
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.
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.