The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
ATTRIBUTION:
Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886), U.S. president. Ed. James D. Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Presidents, vol. 8 (1897); veto message of Rivers and Harbor Bill (1882). Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur, ch. 15, Thomas C. Reeves (1975).
