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We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
Mitch Daniels
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Mitch Daniels
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 7
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