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Who was
Thomas Jefferson ?
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 learning very early in life and
never stopped.
At 5, began
studying under his cousin's tutor.
At 9, studied
Latin, Greek and French.
At 14,
studied classical literature and additional languages.
At 16,
entered the College of William and Mary.
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.
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 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.
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
president.
At 83, died
on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along
with John Adams.
Thomas
Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at
government. 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.
Jefferson really knew his stuff. A voice from the past to lead us in the
future:
John F.
Kennedy 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
"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
"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
"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
"My
reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much
government."
-- Thomas
Jefferson
"No free
man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-- 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
"The tree
of liberty must be refreshed from 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 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."
