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"
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