"The cause of waves of unemployment is not 'capitalism' but
 governments denying enterprise the right to produce good money."
 - F. A. Hayek

"There is an involuntary element in all unemployment, in the sense that
 no one chooses bad luck over good; there is also a voluntary element
 in all unemployment, in the sense that however miserable one's current
 work options, one can always choose to accept them."
 - Robert E. Lucas, Jr.

"Unemployment is a problem of wages, not of work."
 - Ludwig von Mises

"Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations
 of the social order.  The young people, who, having finished
 their training for work, are forced to remain idle, are the
 ferment out of which the most radical political movements are
 formed.  In their ranks the soldiers of the coming revolutions
 are recruited."
 - Ludwig von Mises

"Unemployment doles can have no other effect
 than the perpetuation of unemployment."
 - Ludwig von Mises

"Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment.
 It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle."
 - Ludwig von Mises

"What's the use of being a genius if you can't use it
 as an excuse for being unemployed?" - Gerald Barzan

"A man is only unemployed when he is both not employed
 and also desires to be employed." - A. C. Pigou, 1933

"The long-range solution [to high unemployment] is to increase the incentive
 for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others...
 We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."
 - Milton Friedman, _U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT; March 7, 1977_

"Depression and mass unemployment are not caused by the
 free market, but by government interference in the economy."
 - Ludwig von Mises, _The Theory of Money and Credit_