Administration Quote by Richard M. Nixon

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

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

— Murray Rothbard

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

— John Maynard Keynes

Nothing so weakens a government as inflation.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Of course, the problems of external default, domestic default, and inflation are all integrally related. A government that chooses to default on its debts…

— Carmen M. Reinhart

The essence of the problem is that the war against inflation is over, ... Ever since 1979 the Fed was fighting a war against…

— Paul McCulley

There's no point in treating a currency like a commodity, devaluing it artificially and causing a lot of poverty among poor countries.

— Mahathir Mohamad

Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

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

“...We would see people wanting to work, not for pennies on the dollar, or to try and keep up with inflation, but because their…

— D.M. Shiro