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It will chide us only if we forget for whom we pay money out and whose money it is we pay.
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gutenberg.orgWoodrow Wilson: “It will chide us only if we forget for whom we pay money out and whose money it is we pay.”
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Wilson warns against forgetting the purpose of government spending and the source of the funds.
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