This is
amazing.
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Thomas Jefferson was a very
remarkable man who started learning very early
in life and never
stopped.*
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At 5, began studying under his cousin's
tutor.*
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At 9, studied Latin, Greek and
French.*
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At 14, studied classical literature and
additional languages.*
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At 16, entered the College of
William and Mary.*
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At 19, studied Law for 5 years
starting under George Wythe.*
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At 23, started his own law
practice.*
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At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of
Burgesses.*
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At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary
View of the Rights of British
America ” and retired from his law
practice.*
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At 32, was a Delegate to the Second
Continental Congress.*
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At 33, wrote the Declaration of
Independence .*
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At 33, took three years to revise
Virginia 's legal code and wrote a Public
Education bill and a
statute for Religious Freedom.*
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At 36, was elected the
second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick
Henry.
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At 40, served in Congress for two
years.*
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At 41, was the American minister to France and
negotiated commercial
treaties with European nations along with Ben
Franklin and John Adams.*
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At 46, served as the first
Secretary of State under George Washington.*
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At 53,
served as Vice President and was elected president of the
American
Philosophical Society.*
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At 55, drafted
the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of
Republican
Party.*
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At 57, was elected the third president of the
United States .*
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At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase
doubling the nation's size.*
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At 61, was elected to a
second term as President.*
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At 65, retired to Monticello
.*
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At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe
Doctrine.*
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At 81, almost single-handedly created the
University of Virginia and served
as its first
president.*
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At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the
Signing of the Declaration of
Independence along with John
Adams.*
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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:*
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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."
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"When we get piled upon one another
in large cities, as in Europe, we shall
become as corrupt as Europe
." -- Thomas Jefferson*
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"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*
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"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*
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"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*
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"My reading of history convinces me that most
bad government results from
too much government." -- Thomas
Jefferson*
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"No free man shall ever be debarred the use
of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson*
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"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*
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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas
Jefferson*
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"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes
the propagation of ideas which
he disbelieves and abhors is sinful
and tyrannical."
-- Thomas Jefferson*
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Thomas
Jefferson said in 1802:*
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"I believe that banking
institutions are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing
armies.*
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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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I wish we could get this out to
everyone!
I'm doing my part. Please do
yours
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