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

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

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