Government Quote by Joseph Salerno

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

The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.

— Murray Rothbard

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

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 the senility of democracies.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

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

— Frederick Leith-Ross

I think democracies are prone to inflation because politicians will naturally spend [excessively] - they have the power to print money and will use…

— Charlie Munger

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

— John Maynard Keynes

Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for the politicians…

— Henry Hazlitt

When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.

— Stefan Molyneux

Nothing so weakens a government as inflation.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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