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
trying liberty rich
A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.
temptation promise trying
I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.
government want firsts
Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.
best-kept-secrets world investing
The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.
government political morality
If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.
government ideas people
Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
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.
government ideas liberty
Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives - and our individual liberties are sacrificed for the benefit of the Fatherland.
government once-upon-a-time liberty
Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.
meaningful people giving
When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.
acts bear care consequences incentive people
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 try to learn from their mistakes.
consequences experience good suffer
Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
articles japanese magazines newspapers war year
I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
america whenever
Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.