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From Quotes by Harry Browne
- The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
- Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to…
- A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
- I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending…
- ...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…
- 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…
- The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer…
- The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting…
- 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,…
- You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship.…
- Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing…
- No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.
- The seeds of today's runaway government were planted when it was decided that government should help those who can't help themselves. From that modest, compassionate…
- Social Security is inherently unsound for the simple reason that it's a political program run by politicians for political purposes...Social Security operates on a very…
- 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…
- For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
- Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom sizes in the…
- The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a safe code of conduct -…
- Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and…
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