Harry Browne

Harry Browne was an American writer, politician, and investment advisor. He was the Libertarian Party’s Presidential nominee in the U.S. elections of 1996 and 2000. He is the author of 12 books that in total have sold more than 2 million copies.

Date of birth:
17th June, 1933
Date of death:
1st March, 2006
"I’m 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
Topic(s): War
"Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel."
― Harry Browne
Topic(s): Happiness
"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
Topic(s): Government
"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
Topic(s): Government
"Freedom and responsibility aren’t interconnected things. They are the same thing."
― Harry Browne
Topic(s): Freedom
"Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out – while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out."
― Harry Browne
Topic(s): Death
"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
Topic(s): Experience
"A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone – not just those who have the resources to seize political power."
― Harry Browne
Topic(s): Society
"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
Topic(s): Government
"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
Topic(s): Family

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