Logo
Quote by Harry Browne
Government is force, pure and simple. Theres no way to sugar-coat

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

Other quotes by 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

Category:
Religion
Author
Harry Browne
Read Quote

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

Category:
History
Author
Harry Browne
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Government
category

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. – Oliver Cromwell

Category:
Government

Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad. – Iain Duncan Smith

Category:
Government

The public is upset. If they havent lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they havent lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When somethings wrong, its governments job to fix it, it must be government thats responsible for causing it. – Michael Bloomberg

Category:
Government

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens — and then everybody disagrees. – Boris Marshalov

Category:
Government

Random Quotes

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. – Howard Nemerov

Category:
Poetry

Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national. – Stephen Cambone

Category:
Intelligence

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. – Howard Scott

Category:
Business

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. – Richard Bach

Category:
Men