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Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.
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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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Having always observed that public works are much less advantageously managed than the same are by private hands, I have thought it better for the public to go to market for whatever it wants which is to be found there for there competition brings it down to the minimum value.
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Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.
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Never spend your money before you have earned it.
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I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
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Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.
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I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
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Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.
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For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
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I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.
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In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.
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An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.
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Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
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Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country
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The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.
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In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
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the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
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