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Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern
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- Milton Friedman
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- Approximate author period: c. 1959 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Milton Friedman: life dates 1912 to 2006. Wikidata Q47426, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47426 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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