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Every dollar, as it leaves the National Treasury, must be able to exhibit its passport.
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Sumner insists that every dollar spent from the National Treasury must be justified and accounted for.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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