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Lysander Spooner: Therefore to deny our right to buy in foreign markets, is to forbid us to sell in foreign markets.

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Therefore to deny our right to buy in foreign markets, is to forbid us to sell in foreign markets.
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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner asserts that denying the right to buy abroad also restricts the ability to sell abroad.

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