Founder’s Quote
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Daily Reading & Meditation: Thursday (November 16)
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“There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises.” —James Madison (1790)
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