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And all excuses for establishing monopolies of money, by prohibiting all other money than the coins, would also have been avoided.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “And all excuses for establishing monopolies of money, by prohibiting all other money than the coins, would also have…”
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In this quote, Spooner discusses the detrimental effects of government monopolies on money.
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