Harry Browne Quotes

• Profit is a reward for satisfying the desire of someone else.

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• You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you’re giving to them.

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• While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don’t exist.

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• World War II has always been of great interest to me. I’ve known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

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• Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I’m being ridiculous.

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• 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.

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• What we really need is compassion of the mind – compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

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• Voluntary association produces the free market – where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.

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• There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons – killing innocent people to influence other people.

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• The Constitution isn’t written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It’s in plain English.

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• The communitarians may say you’ve been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life – to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.

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• The Bill of Rights isn’t some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.

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• The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn’t want.

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• 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.

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• Since no one but you can know what’s best for you, government control can’t make your life better.

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• 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.

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• Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can’t have perfection in a world of limited resources.

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• Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn’t work. It can’t deliver the mail on time, it doesn’t keep our cities safe, it doesn’t educate our children properly.

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• Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out – while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

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• It has long been apparent that many people in the media don’t believe you’re competent to make your own decisions.

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Harry Browne (50)

Birth:	17th June, 1933
Death:	1st March, 2006
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Writer

About

Harry Edson Browne was born in New York City, New York, USA. He was an American politician, writer 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. He wrote several books include: How you can profit from the coming devaluation, How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, You can profit from a monetary crisis, New Profits from the Monetary Crisis, Spain's Civil War, The Economic Time Bomb, Why government doesn't work, Chartism,  Fail-Safe Investing, and The Great Libertarian Offer.

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