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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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802 |
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AUTHOR:
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Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) |
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QUOTATION:
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The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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President THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Shelton Gilliam, June 19, 1808.—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 12, p. 73 (1903). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Government spending |
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