THOMAS JEFFERSON

This is amazing.

There are two parts.

Be sure to read

The 2nd part (in RED ) ,,,,and really THINK about it.

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.

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.

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 about government 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 hedisbelieves 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 bankswill 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 every American!