This has been around before but I'm so glad to be able to read it again; I hope you are as well.This comes by way of Diane Cook Kelson
Thomas Jefferson
His portrait is on the $2.00 Dollar Bill.
This is amazing. There are two parts to this.
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 the
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
I wish we could
get this out to every American!
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