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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 808
AUTHOR: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945)
QUOTATION: Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.
ATTRIBUTION: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, governor of New York, radio speech discussing the national Democratic platform, July 30, 1932.—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928–1932, p. 663 (1938).
SUBJECTS: Government spending