Government Quote by Ludwig von Mises

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

Inflation is essentially antidemocratic.

— Ludwig von Mises

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

— Robert Orben

Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat…

— Leonard Read

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

Inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service of socialism.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ludwig von Mises

Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of our time.…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— John Maynard Keynes

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