93+ Harry Browne Quotes On Education, World And Inspiring

Harry Browne was an American writer, political commentator, and investment advisor. He was the Libertarian Party's presidential nominee in the U.S. presidential elections of 1996 and 2000. He was also the author of 12 books that dealt with topics such as personal finance, politics, and philosophy. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Harry Browne on leadership, education, life.

Top 10 Harry Browne Quotes

1. The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".
2. Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.
3. For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise.
4. The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
5. In almost all matters, the real question should be: why are we letting government handle this?
6. 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, free education, and a free lunch.
7. Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'
8. A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.
9. Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.
10. You are where you are today because you've chosen to be there.

Harry Browne Short Quotes

• Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.
• Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.
• When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.
• You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
• Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
• I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.
• I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.
• Profit is a reward for satisfying the desire of someone else.
• No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.
• The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

Harry Browne Quotes About Life

A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility. — Harry Browne

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything. — Harry Browne

You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about? — Harry Browne

Harry Browne Quotes About World

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. — Harry Browne

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. — Harry Browne

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. — Harry Browne

When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer. — Harry Browne

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected. — Harry Browne

America rules the world - by force. — Harry Browne

Harry Browne Quotes About Free

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. — Harry Browne

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it. — Harry Browne

I am running for President because it is obvious that no Democrat or Republican is ever going to stop the relentless growth of the federal government. Only a Libertarian will free you from the income tax. — Harry Browne

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price. — Harry Browne

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price. — Harry Browne

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free. — Harry Browne

Harry Browne Quotes About Important

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative. — Harry Browne

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do -- by yourself, upon your own initiative. — 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. — Harry Browne

Harry Browne Quotes About Choose

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself. — Harry Browne

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. You can choose. — Harry Browne

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. You can choose — Harry Browne

Harry Browne Famous Quotes And Sayings

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 yourself from harm is your responsibility, and you are far less likely to be hurt in a neighborhood of gun-owners than in one of disarmed citizens - even if you don't own a gun yourself. — Harry Browne

So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such as the Mafia. So to be more precise, government is the agency of coercion that has flags in front of its offices. — Harry Browne

In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be compassionate with your money, not their own. It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that 'compassion'. — Harry Browne

Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn. — Harry Browne

The coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others -- summoning the worst dregs of society to Washington to use that power to impose their will upon others. — Harry Browne

The marketplace is a wondrous institution. It harnesses the self-interest of each of us and puts it to work for the benefit of all. And it does so without intruding upon our desires, our privacy, or our freedom. It is regulation by reality, not by coercion. — Harry Browne

If a law could keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be virtually no gun crime at all. — Harry Browne

Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron project in India.' ... After all, they're greedy businessmen and you're a selfless public servant. — Harry Browne

Politicians are notoriously economically illiterate. And even when they know what would be the right thing, we don't really expect them to do it. — Harry Browne

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. — Harry Browne

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens. — Harry Browne

Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there. — Harry Browne

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 simple principle: the politicians take your money from you and squander it. — Harry Browne

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily. — Harry Browne

If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government. — Harry Browne

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. — Harry Browne

Once we realize that government doesn't work, we will stop dreaming that this or that social problem can be solved by passing a law - or by creating a new government program - or by electing someone who will make Washington more efficient or cost-conscious. — Harry Browne

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 that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights. — Harry Browne

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants. — Harry Browne

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out. — Harry Browne

Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't. — Harry Browne

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. — Harry Browne

Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge you with a crime), no right to a jury trial, no right to confront your accuser, no right to a court-appointed attorney (even if the government has just stolen all your money), and no right to compensation for the property that's been taken. — Harry Browne

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power. — Harry Browne

It isn't possible to give government just a little control over the economy and our lives. Once we cede that power to government, it uses the power to take more from us. That's why every year the government controls more of our lives. — Harry Browne

The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer have the freedom to direct their own lives ... Today, it is the government that is free - free to do whatever it wants. There is no subject, no issue, no matter ... that is not subject to legislation. — Harry Browne

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. — Harry Browne

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone. — Harry Browne

The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren’t libertarians if we tolerate it. — Harry Browne

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past. — Harry Browne

We may not always recognize it, but government plays a bigger role in our lives than any other single person or institution. We spend nearly half of our lives working to pay for it. Children spend more time in government schools than they do with their parents. Birth, death, marriage, every area of our lives feels the influence of government. — Harry Browne

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. — Harry Browne

Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't make people be moral, but they believe it can end poverty. Neither group attempts to explain why government is so clumsy and destructive in one area but a paragon of efficiency and benevolence in the other. — Harry Browne

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily. — Harry Browne

The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a safe code of conduct - one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone - for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative. So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you. — Harry Browne

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. — Harry Browne

When you give up the hope that some advisor, some system, some source of inside tips is going to give you a shortcut to wealth, you'll finally begin to gain control over your financial future. — Harry Browne

Government doesn't work. That's the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society. — Harry Browne

Find out what people want and help them get it. — Harry Browne

Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and start minding their own business. — Harry Browne

Give politicians power and it certainly will be abused eventually - if not by today's politicians, then by their successors. — Harry Browne

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 beginning to today's out-of-control mega-state, there's a straight, unbroken line. Once the door was open, once it was settled that the government should help some people at the expense of others, there was no stopping it. — Harry Browne

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. — Harry Browne

Social Security is a fraudulent scheme in which the government collect money from you for your retirement - and immediately spend the money on something else. — Harry Browne

Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did? — Harry Browne

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion." — Harry Browne

Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily. — Harry Browne

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats. — Harry Browne

If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions! — Harry Browne

There's nothing shameful in acknowledging that you don't have the answers to every question about life. Just accept the fact that you know only a fraction of what's going on in the world. You don't have to attach explanations in terms of a special revelation of God's will, a glimpse at the supernatural, evidence of a conspiracy, or anything else. — Harry Browne

Once we realize that government doesn't work, we'll know that the only way to improve government is by reducing its size - by doing away with laws, by getting rid of programs, by making government spend and tax less, by reducing government as far as we can. — Harry Browne

Get your money out of the country before your country gets your money out of you — Harry Browne

Life Lessons by Harry Browne

1. Harry Browne taught that life is too short to waste time on things that don't truly matter, and to focus on what is truly important.
2. He also encouraged people to take responsibility for their own lives, and to make decisions that will lead to a more fulfilling life.
3. He believed that people should strive to be independent and to take risks in order to achieve their goals.