4 Harry Browne Quotes on Control

Harry Browne quotes on control

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

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

6. Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom sizes in the government schools. Republican politicians want to solve the crisis by taking more of your money to provide vouchers to a handful of the poorest students in each area, paying for a part of the tuition expense at private schools. But before long this 'reform' would make those private schools indistinguishable from the government schools ... Vouchers are an excellent way for the government to increase control over private schools.

11. Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.