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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 802 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Shelton Gilliam, June 19, 1808.—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 12, p. 73 (1903). |
| SUBJECTS: | Government spending |
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