"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
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Government
― Harry Browne
More From Harry Browne
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Government
- "Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low."― Ovid
- "Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past."― Jonathan Sacks
- "You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can’t stop me… It’s called senility."― Robert Anton Wilson