Harry Browne

“Worry is the interest paid on a debt you may not owe.”

“Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.”

“Government is a parasite that thrives on the productive sectors of the economy.”

“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.”

“You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.”

“You are the master of your life. You can do much more than you have been led to believe. You have more power than you realize.”

“Freedom and responsibility are two sides of the same coin. The more freedom you want, the more responsibility you must be willing to accept.”

“If you don't know who you are, you'll be whoever others want you to be.”

“Don’t expect anyone else to want for you what you want for yourself.”

“A great deal of what is reasonable in the world is not sensible.”

“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, 'See, if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk.'”

“The idea that you can vote away the rights of others is the heart of all tyranny.”

“No one owes you a living. What you achieve or fail to achieve in your life is directly related to what you do or fail to do.”

“The first step in claiming your freedom is to truly understand that you are in a prison.”

“You're in a box. You've been in it your whole life. You've been taught that you have to be in it... The box is the 'Identity Trap.'”

“The free market is the greatest force for social cooperation in human history.”

“Giving up freedom for security is a bad trade-off, because you can end up with neither.”