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You cannot make men lend you; you cannot make men sell you anything --either bread, or meat, or wool, or iron, or anything that is or that can be created--except for that which they choose to take.
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Editor's note · Context
Sherman argues that economic transactions depend on voluntary participation rather than coercion.
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