Inflation made it possible to divert the fury of the people to 'speculators' and 'profiteers'. Thus it proved itself an excellent psychological resource of the destructive and annihilist war policy.

The attempt to restrain prices within limits has to be given up. A government that sets out to abolish market prices is inevitably driven towards the abolition of private property.

The agents of etatism have certainly not been lacking in zeal and energy. But, for all this, economic affairs cannot be kept going by magistrates and policemen.

Inflationism is that monetary policy that seeks to increase the quantity of money.

Naive inflationism demands an increase in the quantity of money without suspecting that this will diminish the purchasing power of the money.

The doctrine of the importance of hoards for stabilizing the objective exchange-value of money has gradually lost its adherents with the passing of time. Nowadays its supporters are few.

The exchange-value of money is the anticipated use-value of the things that can be obtained with it.

The function of money is to facilitate the business of the market by acting as a common medium of exchange.

Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you.

I think most actors like to be liked.

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

Failure is relative. Life is adventure. Everything has beauty.

Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others.

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.

The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.