T H O M A S J e f f e r s o n
This is amazing. There are two parts. Be sure to read the 2nd part (in RED) .
Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started l earning very early in
life and never stopped.
At 5, began studying under his cousin's tutor.
At 9, studied Latin, Greek and
French.
French.
At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.
At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.
Also could write in Greek with one hand while writing the same in Latin with the other.
At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.
At 23, started his own law practice .
At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights
of British America" and retired from his law practice.
At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence.
At 33, took three years to revise Virginia's legal code and wrote a
Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.
At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding
Patrick Henry.
At 40, served in Congress for two
years.
years.
At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated
commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John
Adams.
At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George
Washington.
At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the
American Philosophical Society.
At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head
of the Republican Party.
At 57, was elected the third president of the United States.
At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation's size.
At 61, was elected to a second term as
President.
President.
At 65, retired to Monticello.
At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.
At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia
and served as its first P resident.
At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the
Declaration of Independence along with John Adams.
Thomas Jefferson really knew his stuff because he himself studied
the previous failed attempts at g overnment. He
understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man.
That happens to be way more than what
most understand today.
most understand today.
John F. Kennedy once held a dinner in the White House for a group
of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement:
"This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at
one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined
alone."
"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in
Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."
-- Thomas Jefferson
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The democracy will cease to exist when you
take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
-- Thomas Jefferson
take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts
as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the
world."
-- Thomas Jefferson
-- Thomas Jefferson
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can
prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense
of taking care of them."
-- Thomas Jefferson
-- Thomas Jefferson
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad
government results from too much government."
-- Thomas Jefferson
-- Thomas Jefferson
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-- Thomas Jefferson
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to
keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny
in government."
-- Thomas Jefferson
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time with the blood of patriots and
tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson
time to time with the blood of patriots and
tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the
propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and
tyrannical."
-- Thomas Jefferson
-- Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to
our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private
banks to control the issue of their currency, first by
inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
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