Harry Browne Quotes About Libertarianism
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The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting yourself from harm is your responsibility, and you are far less likely to be hurt in a neighborhood of gun-owners than in one of disarmed citizens - even if you don't own a gun yourself.
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For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise.
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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.
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It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."
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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.
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Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.
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Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.
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Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.
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The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.
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The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer have the freedom to direct their own lives ... Today, it is the government that is free - free to do whatever it wants. There is no subject, no issue, no matter ... that is not subject to legislation.
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Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.
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Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.
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I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, unless Congress chooses otherwise." And because there are no exceptions, I disagree with my fellow panelists who say the existing gun laws should be enforced. Those laws are unconstitutional [and] wrong - because they put you at a disadvantage to armed criminals, to whom the laws are no inconvenience.
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I want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.
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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.
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A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.
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Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.
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