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Governments have meddled incessantly with money, which in our time has been the fruitful parent of intricate discussions and painful changes.

— Thomas Hodgskin Popular Political Economy: Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (1827)

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Nature rewards industry and skill, the legislator be he who he may, is utterly regardless of the connection between industry and plenty.

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Those who make laws, appropriate wealth in order to secure power.

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Mr. Locke says, that every man has a property in his own person; in fact, individuality—which is signified by the word own—cannot be disjoined from the person.

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The skill and the art of the labourer have been overlooked, and he has been vilified; while the work of his hands has been worshiped.

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