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Harry Edson Browne (June 17, 1933 – March 1, 2006) 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.

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Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.

Citizens, Criminals, Lines, Safer

It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.

Give, Giving, Government, Important, Power, Realize

Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.

Believe, Office, Say, Stay, Winning

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

Government, Liberty, Person, Rich, Trying, Welfare

Being a politician means never having to say you're sorry. You don't have to say, 'I never should have voted to subsidize that ridiculous Enron project in India. '. . . After all, they're greedy businessmen and you're a selfless public servant.

Mean, Project, Selfless, Should Have, Sorry, Subsidize

Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.

Forcing, Humanitarian, Moral, People, Voluntary

Find out what people want and help them get it!

Help, Helping, People, Want

Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

Government, Human Nature, Politician, Politicians, Good, Individuals

Insurance is meant for extraordinary circumstances. You don't use car insurance to pay for oil changes or gasoline; you have it as protection in case you have a terrible accident or your car is stolen. You don't use homeowners' insurance to pay your electricity and water bills; you have it as protection in case a fire or other catastrophic event produces a large expense. Obviously, any insurance policy that promises to cover every small, ordinary expense is going to be much more expensive than one that covers only extraordinary expenses.

Expense, Fire, Oil, Policy, Stolen, Water

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

Responsibility, Freedom And Responsibility, Interconnected, Freedom, Thing

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.

Government, Issue, Issues, Legislation, Lives, Responsibility

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.

Easily, Explanation, Inspirational, Life, Miracle, Ready

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.

Free, Freedom, Identify, May, Pay, Want

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk. '

Crutch, Crutches, Government, Hands, See, Walk

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.

Choice, Choices, Forfeit, Imagine, Power

When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

Giving, Meaningful, Owes, People, Please

The best thing we can do for family values is to repeal the income tax. Then families will have the resources they need to implement their own values - and not those of the politicians. With the income tax gone, families will no longer be forced to have two breadwinners by necessity. Children will be raised better, family values will predominate, and crime will diminish. If your local school indoctrinates your child with values that are alien to you, you'll have the money to buy a private education.

Alien, Buy, Children, Families, School, Two

There's nothing shameful in acknowledging that you don't have the answers to every question about life. Just accept the fact that you know only a fraction of what's going on in the world. You don't have to attach explanations in terms of a special revelation of God's will, a glimpse at the supernatural, evidence of a conspiracy, or anything else.

Fact, Facts, Nothing, Special, Wisdom

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

Fingers, Foreign, Policy, Sorry, Years

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

Known, Politician, Suckered, War, World

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