And all the jugglery, cheating, and robbery that governments have practised, and licensed individuals to practise--by coining pieces bearing the same names, but having different amounts of metal--would have been avoided.
Spooner argues against government manipulation of currency, highlighting the potential for fraud.
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On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
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.
They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.