Thomas Jefferson

[Silentweapon338]

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."

[Mergie Master]

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson

Everyone takes that part out of context and they conveniently omit where he says, "God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion".

God forbid we should ever be 20. years without such a rebellion. The people can not be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independent 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure. Our Convention has been too much impressed by the insurrection of Massachusets: and in the spur of the moment they are setting up a kite to keep the hen yard in order. I hope in god this article will be rectified before the new constitution is accepted." - Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, Paris, 13 Nov. 1787

[billyjack]

I don't know. The people running the country seem pretty darn certain he was talking about hunting when he wrote the 2nd Amendment and that we don't need the 2nd anyway because we have a government that has an army and police to protect us...from the government. If he felt this way at the time, why would he be more concerned with hunting rights?

[Palmetto Pride]

Seems to me Cruz is the only one with any resemblance to Jefferson. But he sounds so nasally it makes me wonder his true intentions. Wicked smart though... Read up on him if you haven't.