Harry Browne Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.”

“I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.”

“Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.”

“For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.”

“You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.”

“Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.”

“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.”

“Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.”

“Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.”

“Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.”