Harry Browne Quotes
"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."
- Harry Browne
(Related: Life, Want)
"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."
- Harry Browne
(Related: Family, Government, Values, Children, Drugs, Fighting, Liberty, Name, Politicians, Poverty, Right)
"Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens."
- Harry Browne
(Related: Knowledge, Security, Will)
"The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice."
- Harry Browne
(Related: War, Government, Career, Choice, Misfortune, Poverty)
"The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative."
- Harry Browne
"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."
- Harry Browne
(Related: May, Now, Want, Will)
"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."
- Harry Browne
(Related: Experience, Act, Consequences, Right, Will)
"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."
- Harry Browne
(Related: Government, Power, Fact, Giving)
"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."
- Harry Browne
(Related: Knowledge, Events, Explanations, May, Miracles)
"You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there."
- Harry Browne
(Related: Today)