Arithmetic makes it plain that inflation is a far more devastating tax than anything that has been enacted by our legislature. The inflation tax has a fantastic ability to simply consume capital
— Warren Buffett

Inflation hasn’t ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver
— H Jackson Brown Jr.

Seigniorage finance of fiscal deficits is often known as “the printing press.” In a sense, money is the root of all inflationary evil. It helps to understand why inflation bursts out here and there periodically
— Michael Connolly

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations will grow up around them, will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs
— Thomas Jefferson

If inflation continues to soar, you’re going to have to work like a dog just to live like one
— George Gobel

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

— John Maynard Keynes