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We never did undertake to fill the body or to clothe the body at the public expense.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “We never did undertake to fill the body or to clothe the body at the public expense.”
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Sumner clarifies that public funding has never extended to physical needs like clothing or food.
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