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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.orgThis value they will retain, whether they circulate as money, or not.
This quote emphasizes that the value of coins persists regardless of their use as currency.
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The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.
Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.
Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.