Harry Browne

Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge you with a crime), no right to a jury trial, no right to confront your accuser, no right to a court-appointed attorney (even if the government has just stolen all your money), and no right to compensation for the property that's been taken.

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.

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.

When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.

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.

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.