Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
802
AUTHOR:
Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
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).