Tag: Harry Browne

“Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.”

Walter E. Williams

“What I can’t understand is, how can anybody figure now that the government can support us, when we support the government.”

Rose Wilder Lane

“Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.”

Hans Sennholz

“The government’s War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.”

Harry Browne

“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.”

Thomas Sowell

“Government doesn’t work. That’s the first lesson we must learn if we want to improve society.”

Harry Browne

“The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.”

Ayn Rand

“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

“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

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.”

Ludwig von Mises

“Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.”

Sinclair Lewis

“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.”

Walter E. Williams

“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.”

Henri Frederic Amiel

“School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.”

John Taylor Gatto

“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

“Politicians need human misery.”

L. Neil Smith

“Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.”

Henry Steele Commager

“The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.”

Harry Browne

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.”

Ayn Rand

“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms.”

Richard Henry Lee

“In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.”

Ron Paul

“It’s wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that compassion.”

Harry Browne

“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.”

Harry Browne

“Government programs didn’t arise because the people demanded them or because the free market was unable to provide needed services. They arose because the politicians found them to be a convenient way to buy votes with other people’s money, a convenient way to enlarge their own power, a convenient way to reward their political cronies, and a convenient way to keep people dependent on government.”

Harry Browne

“The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.”

Harry Browne