| Ludwig von Mises | Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe. | Defense, Controls, and Inflation | p. 109 | Inflation |
| Ludwig von Mises | What is a loophole? If the law does not punish a definite action or does not tax a definite thing, this is not a loophole. It is simply the law. | Defense, Controls, and Inflation | p. 115 | LoopholeS |
| Ludwig von Mises | Even capital punishment could not make price control work in the days of Emperor Diocletian and the French Revolution. | Defense, Control, and Inflation | pp. 109-10 | Price control |
| Ludwig von Mises | Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists. | Defense, Controls, and Inflation | p. 333 | Taxes |
| Ludwig von Mises | At the breakfast table of every citizen sits in wartime an invisible guest, as it were, a G.I. who shares the meal. In the citizens garage stays not only the family car but besidesinvisiblya tank or a plane. The important fact is that this G.I. needs more in food, clothing, and other things than he used to consume as a civilian and that military equipment wears out much quicker than civilian equipment. The costs of a modern war are enormous. | Defense, Controls, and Inflation | p. 331 | War and Peace |