A Real President, Unlike in Every Way What We Have Suffered Through For the Last 13 Years

 

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.

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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.

Also could write in Greek with one hand while writing the

same in Latin with the other.

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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.

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 every

American! I'm doing my part. So Please do

yours.

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Sylvia

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