Thomas Jefferson

Too bad the young people of today are so DUMB. They need to see who and what Thomas Jefferson did with his life, and here's a preview that should be mounted on the walls of ALL Schools.

Thomas Jefferson   At  5, began studying under his  cousins 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  .

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 .
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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.
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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.
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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..
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My  reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from  too much government.
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No free  man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
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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.
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to  time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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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.
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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.