I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. - Harry Browne
The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is - it's got to be more government. - Harry Browne
There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people. - Harry Browne
Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities. - Harry Browne
What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results. - Harry Browne
Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone. - Harry Browne
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. - Harry Browne
Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous. - Harry Browne
While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist. - Harry Browne
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. - Harry Browne
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
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
You have only one life, and no one else will live it for you. Shouldn't you take the time right now to figure out what that life is all about? - Harry Browne
You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them. - Harry Browne
A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.
A man, to use an old-fashioned phrase, of some twenty-eight summers, he gave the impression at the moment of having experienced at least that number of very hard winters.
As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.
As is so often the case with butlers, there was a good deal of Beach. Julius Caesar, who liked to have men about him who were fat, would have taken to him at once. He was a man who had made two chins grow where only one had been before, and his waistcoat swelled like the sail of a racing yacht.
As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
Attila the Hun might have broken off his engagement to her, but nobody except Attila the Hun, and he only on one of his best mornings.
Breakfast had been prepared by the kitchen maid, an indifferent performer who had used the scorched earth policy on the bacon again.
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