Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.
Interpretation
Hemp is crucial for both the economy and security of a nation.
This quote by Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the essential role that hemp has played in the prosperity and safety of a country. By recognizing hemp's agricultural and economic value, Jefferson advocates for its importance in bolstering national wealth and ensuring protection, highlighting its historical significance in American agriculture and industry.
In practice
In a discussion about sustainable agriculture, you might use this quote to highlight the economic benefits of hemp farming.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.
Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.
That economic decisions are made without certain knowledge of the consequences is pretty self-evident. But, although many economists were aware of this elementary fact, there was no systematic analysis of economic uncertainty until about 1950.
The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction.
I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
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