Inflation Quotes

Someone said that inflation is like jumping off the top of the Empire State Building. The sensation is great as long as you keep on going.

David H. Scott

Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.

Leon Henderson

Next to inflation, majority rule is the most ingenious scheme ever contrived by government. Most people have never dared to question the basic morality or logic in the assumption that the majority should have power over the minority. A majority of the people in the South once believed in black slavery. Did that make it moral? A lynch mob is majority rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. In a community where homosexuals outnumber heterosexuals, should the majority have the right to outlaw sex between married partners of the opposite sex? In a community where atheists outnumber non- atheists, should the majority have the right to outlaw the practice of religion? ... a dictatorship allows only a small number of people to interfere with the rights of others, a democracy makes it possible for great numbers of people to impose their will on others -- through the force of government. Is an act of aggression more right if carried out by the majority than by a dictator? Since approximately half the eligible voters vote this means that approximately 75% of the people are ruled by 25% of the people.

Robert J. Ringer

What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.

Franklin Pierce Adams

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

Franklin Pierce Adams

The whole recorded history of man is strewn with the wreckage of the great civilizations which have crumbled under price controls; and in forty centuries of human experience, there has never been

Irving S. Olds

Remember when $25, 000 was a success? Now it is a garbage collector.

Frank Dane

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Will Durant

Nowadays, a penny saved is ridiculous!

Shelby Friedman

Inflation is when sitting on your nest egg doesn't give you anything to crow about.

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I wasn't affected by inflation, I had nothing to inflate.

Gerald Barzan

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Milton Friedman

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

Robert Orben

Imagine believing in the control of inflation by curbing the money supply! That is like deciding to stop your dog fouling the sidewalk by plugging up its rear end. It is highly unlikely to succeed, but if it does it kills the hound.

Michael D. Stephens

Inflation is determined by money supply growth.

Roger Bootle

One good thing can be said for inflation: without it there would be no football.

Marty Ragaway

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

Robert Orben

The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Ernest Hemingway

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

John Maynard Keynes

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Kathleen Norris