Thomas Jefferson Wow! Thanks Pidge F.!

  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
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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