Quotes by Harry Browne

• 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.
• Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
• 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.
• The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
• The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
• 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.
• 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.
• You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
• You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.