197 Quotes by 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”.

Freedom and responsibility aren’t interconnected things. They are the same thing.

Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives – and our individual liberties are sacrificed for the benefit of the Fatherland.

When you know that you’re capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.

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

Not only can no one predict the future, we don’t understand the present – and there isn’t even any certainty about the past.

The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can’t. But you can choose for yourself...

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are right, he’ll get good consequences; if they’re not, he’ll suffer for it.

The Bill of Rights isn’t some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.