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Every dollar paid by the Government, both the gold and the silver dollars of the Constitution, and their paper representatives, honest and unchanging in value and equal to every other.
Said by
George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Hoar discusses the importance of honest currency in government transactions.

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