WHO IS / WAS THOMAS Jefferson?

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WHO IS / WAS THOMAS Jefferson??

This is amazing.

There are two parts. Be sure to read the 2nd part, too

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 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. So Please do yours.

Wish for world peace ...

[Luaine]

Amazing !

[Whoopenstein]

Also sent the Lewis & Clark expedition.