Harry Browne Quotes

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

Conservatives believe government's principal functions are the preservation of freedom and removal of restraints on the individual. Liberalism's ascent in the first two-thirds of this century reflected the new belief that government should also confer capacities on individuals. Liberalism's decline in the final third of this century has reflected doubts about whether government can be good at that, or whether government that is good at that is good for the nation's character.

All government is an ugly necessity.

Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want.

If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.

The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.

...a state is not the same thing as a society ... A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.

When the government acts to preserve and defend certain rights, it may take actions that some people see as just the opposite – as the violation of their rights.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it

My family is just like most other families - we rise and fall on good and bad government policy. Politics affects us all.

I believe in the state as a power for good.

I know a lot about what government does do, can do, should do.

I grew up outside of Washington D.C., a town in which the largest industry is government and in which almost everyone I knew was involved in creating policies which impact people across our country and around the globe.

No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

Government is a necessary evil

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

Government does not do ANYthing as well as the private sector does, and that includes educating your children.