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They will hold on to it as long as they own and control governments as they do now.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “They will hold on to it as long as they own and control governments as they do now.”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner asserts that monopolists will retain their control over governments to maintain their money monopoly.
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For all these reasons, they are not only modest and sensible, but really frank, honest, and honorable villains, contrasted with these courts of injustice, and the lawmakers by whom these courts are established.
They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.
They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.