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Fiscal prudence

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 monies.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 4, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories moneyTags Thomas Jefferson

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