| Ludwig von Mises | How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department! | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 458 | Fiat Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | Money is regarded as the cause of theft and murder, of deception and betrayal. Money is blamed when the prostitute sells her body and when the bribed judge perverts the law. It is money against which the moralist declaims when he wishes to oppose excessive materialism. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 111 | Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | Money is merely the commonly used medium of exchange; it plays only an intermediary role. . | Planning for Freedom | p. 66 | Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | For two hundred years the governments have interfered with the markets choice of the money medium. Even the most bigoted tatists do not venture to assert that this interference has proved beneficial. | Human Action | p. 419; p. 422 | Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | Fiat money is a money consisting of mere tokens which can neither be employed for any industrial purposes nor convey a claim against anybody. | Human Action | p. 426; p. 429 | Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of paper upon which the treasury or agencies which it controls have printed the magical words legal tender. | Human Action | pp. 444-45; p. 448 | Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | No technological computation and calculation would be possible in an environment that would not employ a generally used medium of exchange, money. | The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science | p. 127 | Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | Money is nothing but a medium of exchange and it completely fulfills its function when the exchange of goods and services is carried on more easily with its help than would be possible to means of barter. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 31 | Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | Where the free exchange of goods and services is unknown, money is not wanted. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 41 | Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | The simple statement, that money is a commodity whose economic function is to facilitate the interchange of goods and services, does not satisfy those writers who are interested rather in the accumulation of material than in the increase of knowledge. | The Theory of Money and Credit | pp. 4647 | Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | Money has thus become an aid that the human mind is no longer able to dispense with in making economic calculations. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 62 | Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | Money has no utility other than that arising from the possibility of obtaining other economic goods in exchange for it. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 118 | Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | The valuation of the monetary unit depends not upon the wealth of the country, but upon the ratio between the quantity of money and the demand for it, so that even the richest country may have a bad currency and the poorest country a good one. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 278 | Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | If it were really possible to substitute credit expansion (cheap money) for the accumulation of capital goods by saving, there would not be any poverty in the world. | Planning for Freedom | p. 190 | Money Supply |
| Ludwig von Mises | Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion. | Planning for Freedom | p. 7 | Money Supply |
| Ludwig von Mises | If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit. | Economic Policy | p. 66 | Money Supply |
| Ludwig von Mises | The quantity of money available in the whole economy is always sufficient to secure for everybody all that money does and can do. | Human Action | p. 418; p. 421 | Money Supply |
| Ludwig von Mises | No increase in the welfare of the members of a society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 102 | Money Supply |
| Ludwig von Mises | No nation need fear at any time to have less money than it needs. | The Theory of Money and Credit | pp. 208-09 | Money Supply |
| Ludwig von Mises | In all countries where inflation has been rapid, it has been observed that the decrease in the value of the money has occurred faster than the increase in its quantity. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 259 | Money Supply |
| Ludwig von Mises | The entrepreneurs who approach banks for loans are suffering from shortage of capital; it is never shortage of money in the proper sense of the word. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 349 | Money Supply |
| Ludwig von Mises | It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments. Ideologically it belongs in the same class with political constitutions and bills of rights. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 454 | Sound Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | Thus the sound-money principle has two aspects. It is affirmative in approving the markets choice of a commonly used medium of exchange. It is negative in obstructing the governments propensity to meddle with the currency system. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 455 | Sound Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 480 | Sound Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | Sound money still means today what it meant in the nineteenth century: the gold standard. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 480 | Sound Money |
| Ludwig von Mises | Perpetual vigilance on the part of the citizens can achieve what a thousand laws and dozens of alphabetical bureaus with hordes of employees never have and never will achieve: the preservation of a sound currency. | The Theory of Money and Credit | p. 495 | Sound Money |