"It's important to realize that whenever you give……" — Harry Browne
"It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want."
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Harry Browne
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102 Quotes by Harry Browne
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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…
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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…
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When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something…
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the…
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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…
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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
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You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be…
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In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it…
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent…
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A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources…
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly…
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But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If…
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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
— Barbara Boxer
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Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats…
— Al Gore
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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is…
— L. Neil Smith
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The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are…
— William Henry Chamberlin
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What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.
— Michio Kaku
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Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less…
— Helen Prejean
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Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of…
— John Berger
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People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as…
— Rajeev Shukla
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I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they…
— William J. Clinton
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Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion.…
— Ron Paul
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