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  Thomas   Jefferson

 
His Portrait is on the Two $2.00   
Dollar Bill.

 
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.
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 every American!

 
I'm doing my   
part.

   
Please do   
yours.

6 comments:

CharlieE said...

I like this one:


"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes."

Or, we could just cut taxes repeatedly, and keep on spending, which is what we've done under every Republican administration since 1981.

ferschitz said...


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 guess that's why Donald Trump - who railed at Hillary Clinton for being run by Goldman Sachs - hired all those ex-Goldman Sachs big wigs to be on his cabinet... to make sure that Trump's fans aren't deprived of their property. Oh wait...

Anonymous said...

https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/chain-email-10-jefferson-quotations

Mike Hawk said...

Thomas Jefferson was a true Renaissance man.

I have a lot of respect for ol' TJ.

Mike Hawk

Anonymous said...

I'm sure ol' TJ wouldn't give a shit what you think.

Mike Hawk said...

You'd be surprised, anonymous. However, unlike Jefferson, I don't have a sexual affinity for Negro women.

Mike Hawk

 
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