Introduction
Harry was fond of quotations. Over the years he purchased numerous quotation books and CDs, compiled file folders full of interesting quotes, and collected quotes in various category files on his computer. This book contains 2,048 quotes mostly concerning liberty, government, political parties, and methods of selling the ideas of liberty. Surprisingly, none are by Harry Browne! Rather this is a collection of over two thousand pithy libertarian quotations and comments, mostly by famous people, that will help you sell libertarian ideas to others. -- Pamela Wolfe Browne

Government is good at only one thing. It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you couldn't walk." -- Harry Browne

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum. -- Samuel Adams

During the first hundred years of America, the American people said “No” to Social Security, “No” to Medicare, “No” to the Federal Reserve System, “No” to the income tax, “No” to foreign wars. -- Jacob Hornberger

Individuals do, but groups don’t, inherit opportunity. Do you actually believe that John F. Kennedy Jr. is a member of the same group and was born to the same opportunities possessed by some 35-year-old Caucasian guy in some poor rural county in Virginia, born to a 15-year-old girl whose mother was 17-years old, poor and uneducated when she was born? Do you actually believe that Colin Powell’s son is a member of the same group as that guy born to a poor mother and poor father in Barry Farms [public housing complex]? And do you actually believe this guy and Powell’s son have inherited the same opportunity? . . .

Find me a black boy with ambition, competence, determination, and I’ll show you that boy’s future success. Find me a white boy without ambition, without competence, without determination, and I’ll show you that boy’s future failure. Opportunities given to him will not spell success, and opportunities denied the black boy will not cause him to fail. Some people will fail in heaven, and some people will succeed in hell. It has nothing to do with the group. It has everything to do with the individual character. That’s why Harriet Tubman was free but the “group” wasn’t. -- James Bernard Miles

Massachusetts, in its heroic day, had no government — was an anarchy. Every man stood on his own two feet, was his own governor, and there was no breach of peace from Cape Cod to Mount Hoosac. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

While calling himself a conservative, he presides over unprecedented government expansion. While calling himself compassionate he jails millions of nonviolent Americans and indiscriminately slaughters Iraqis and Afghanis. While praising freedom, he wipes rights off the map. While touting the virtues of self-reliance, he subsidizes everything — using other people’s money. While effusing about volunteerism, he expands programs to pay incompetent “volunteers” handsomely. While praising freemarket economics, he uses subsidy and regulation, carrot and stick, to turn the U.S. business world toward economic fascism. To get his way, he lies about anything while proclaiming the virtues of honesty. He promotes himself as our savior from terrorism, while constantly striving to keep us terrified. He enthuses about spreading the glory of American values while subverting those values at home and sowing hatred and fear of America abroad. -- Claire Wolfe