Citizens Quote by John Maynard Keynes

Why is it inflationary if the people keep their own money, and spend it the way they want to, [but] not inflationary if the…

— Ronald Reagan

If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate…

— Henry Hazlitt

Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. It is made by or stopped by the central bank.

— Milton Friedman

Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.

— Joseph Salerno

Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead…

— Ludwig von Mises

The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly…

— Ludwig von Mises

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of…

— Robert Higgs

Inflation is repudiation.

— Calvin Coolidge

Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it.

— Frederick Leith-Ross

If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.

— Ludwig von Mises

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…

— Ayn Rand