View Full Version : If you like Ron Paul, you would have loved Harry Browne
JPFromTally
07-16-2007, 10:22 PM
Unfortunately, Harry Browne passed away last year. He was one of the finest communicators I have ever seen and was the main reason I became a libertarian. My biggest regret is that more people didn't get a chance to hear his message and how well he delivered it.
I urge you to check out www.harrybrowne.org and read through his old articles. His predictions of a George Bush betrayal are prophetic. (He once called him Al Gore in drag).
There are two books of his which will change your life: "The Great Libertarian Offer" and "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World."
Thanks.
kylejack
07-16-2007, 10:26 PM
I liked him....except when the crooked money issues came about.
Harry96
07-16-2007, 10:27 PM
I second that.
Harry's radio and e-tv shows, also available on his site, are well worth hearing too.
Here's Ron Paul's tribute to Harry that he read on the floor of the House of Representatives on March 30, 2006:
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2006/cr033006.htm
nayjevin
07-16-2007, 10:31 PM
here are two books of his which will change your life: "The Great Libertarian Offer" and "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World."
'how i found freedom' top 5 non fiction i've ever read
Kuldebar
07-16-2007, 10:47 PM
I liked him....except when the crooked money issues came about.
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51AGC73Z14L._AA240_.jpg
There was a lot of political infighting in the LP, and a lot of mud slinging, I never saw definitive proof of impropriety but I did see honest disagreement over how campaign funds would be raised and spent.
I supported Browne financially during both his runs for President. Browne was a very effective speaker and writer but in very many ways different than Paul in personality, background and views. But, the love of liberty was always the common denominator and both men had a lot of respect for each other.
Browne's Why Government Doesn't Work (http://www.amazon.com/Government-Doesnt-Work-Harry-Browne/dp/0965603601) and Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do (http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/books/aint/toc.htm) by Peter McWilliams were two books that completely redirected my life and opened my eyes.
http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/books/aint/cover.jpg
Both of the men who wrote those books and did so much for the cause of liberty are gone now, but I will always hold them in high regard and wished fervently they could have lived to see the Ron Paul Campaign.
Razmear
07-16-2007, 10:56 PM
I voted for Harry in 2000. He was a great speaker.
ronpaulhawaii
07-16-2007, 11:01 PM
Thanks to RP, I voted for Mr. Brown...
Capitalism
07-16-2007, 11:11 PM
I got into libertarianism through Harry Browne and Milton Friedman. Do you think Ron Paul voted for Harry Browne in '96 and '00 over the Republicans?
ronpaulhawaii
07-16-2007, 11:52 PM
I got into libertarianism through Harry Browne and Milton Friedman. Do you think Ron Paul voted for Harry Browne in '96 and '00 over the Republicans?
I can't imagine him _not_
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