State Chartered Banks

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“Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“When he speaks,
The air, a chartered libertine, is still.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)