Harry Browne Believe Quotations

Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.

Most politicians believe in just one thing - winning elections. They'll say anything to get in office and stay there.

It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.

Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't make people be moral, but they believe it can end poverty. Neither group attempts to explain why government is so clumsy and destructive in one area but a paragon of efficiency and benevolence in the other.

No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians.