“Since every action taken by the people to protect themselves from ‘inflation’ threatens the source of the aristocracy’s wealth, it is necessary for it to prevent these actions by successive restrictions on people’s freedom. History shows that the American people will not submit to this during a time of peace. Therefore, it becomes necessary to manufacture continual wars and threats of war in order to appeal to people’s patriotism, to put up with the ‘inflation’ and the controls for the ‘temporary’ emergency.”

— Howard S. Katz