Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws. (Anne Robert Jacques Turgot)

Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

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