Thomas Jefferson, his life and teachings

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."