Harry Browne Quote on Voting and Political Promises

„I have no temptation to vote, to campaign, to try and stop a candidate who promises new follies.“

Harry Edson BrowneA thought-provoking quote by Harry Browne on voting, campaigning, and criticism of political promises.
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Harry Edson Browne was an American writer, libertarian political activist, and investment advisor.

Harry Browne expresses a critical view of voting, campaigning, and political promises.


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Harry Browne quote about voting and political promises

Harry Edson Browne (1933–2006) was an American writer, libertarian political activist, and investment advisor. He was the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee in 1996 and 2000. Through his books and political activities, he advocated personal freedom, limited government, and voluntary cooperation.

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"Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses." Juvenal
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H. L. Mencken quote about political parties, candidates, and electionsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in." H. L. Mencken
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Political quote by Henry Louis Mencken about voters and candidatesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre." Henry Louis Mencken
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Neil Postman quote about voting, polling, political impotence, and the news mediaCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing." Neil Postman
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