The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

A Day never passes without some ardent reformer or group of reformers suggesting some new government intervention, some new statist scheme to fill some alleged 'need' or relieve some alleged distress.

The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.

If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.

Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and that the possible good to be achieved by such a law can exceed the possible harm only in proportion as its aims are mode.