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"Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile"
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
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William Lyon Mackenzie King
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