"Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody."

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Original Language: English

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Attributed to Calvin Coolidge, in Reader's Digest (June 1960), p. 178. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).