Harry Browne Quotes

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Exploitation and government are two inseparable expressions of what is called politics.

The bureaucracy always goes with the way politicians go.

When you give politicians the power to do what you think is right you're automatically giving politicians the power to do what you think is wrong.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

I think that people like Bloomberg, they're complete thugs. No question about it. But on the other hand, it must be said that they are politically savvy. They don't get into those positions of power - in the case of Bloomberg, both economic and political power - by being anybody's fool.

I can't get inside the head of a politician today.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

Silicon Valley is constantly saying that the government is irrelevant and powerless. But that's because most people there have never seen it get serious.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest "functionaire" possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose desecration it depends whether and how I am allowed to live or to work.

He who is the most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power is as eager after for the prerogatives of government.

Politicians have no politics.

The very existence of government implies inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, as long as he is the repository of power.

The fate of American companies often hinges on the power of American politicians, bureaucrats and judges.

Politics, as an end in itself, is a poor business to be in.

Washington has political power combined with the insider illusion of being in control.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.