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This value they will retain, whether they circulate as money, or not.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “This value they will retain, whether they circulate as money, or not.”
Editor's note · Context
This quote emphasizes that the value of coins persists regardless of their use as currency.
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They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.
They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.