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Harry Browne

You are where you are today because youve chosen to be there. – Harry Browne

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

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. Theres 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

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

World War II has always been of great interest to me. Ive known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into. – Harry Browne

Im 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. – Harry Browne

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you cant have perfection in a world of limited resources. – Harry Browne

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didnt want. – Harry Browne

You dont have to buy from anyone. You dont have to work at any particular job. You dont have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose. – Harry Browne

You dont 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

Security… its simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that youre willing to deal with whatever happens. – Harry Browne

The governments War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. – Harry Browne

Government is force, pure and simple. Theres 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

If younger people see older people who havent 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

Freedom and responsibility arent interconnected things. They are the same thing. – Harry Browne

The communitarians may say youve 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. – Harry Browne

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, hell get good consequences if theyre not, hell suffer for it. – Harry Browne

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 youre giving to them. – Harry Browne

I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions. – Harry Browne

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth – that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. – Harry Browne