Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.

This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.

The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.

The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.

Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist.

The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called "taxation" and use the proceeds to kill, enslave, and generally push people around. Therefore, any property in the hands of the State is in the hands of thieves, and should be liberated as quickly as possible. Any person or group who liberates such property, who confiscates or appropriates it from the State, is performing a virtuous act and a signal service to the cause of liberty.

It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.