09-01-2011, 09:52 AM
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."
I
wish we could get this out to everyone.
I'm
doing my part. Please do yours.