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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 805
AUTHOR: John Randolph (1773–1833)
QUOTATION: That most delicious of all privileges—spending other people’s money.
ATTRIBUTION: JOHN RANDOLPH of Roanoke.—William Cabell Bruce, John Randolph of Roanoke, 1773–1833, vol. 2, chapter 7, p. 204 (1922, reprinted 1970).

Randolph was a member of Congress 1799–1813, 1815–1817, and 1819–1829.
SUBJECTS: Government spending