Thanks,
>
> *Don Lanzi*
>
> PLEASE READ AND PASS ON
>
> Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
>
> His portrait is on the $2.00 Dollar Bill.
>
> This is amazing. There are two parts to this.
>
> Be sure to read the 2nd part (in RED).
>
> Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who startedlearning
> 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 nationsalong 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 the 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 takeaway from
> thosewho are willing to work and give to those who would
> not."-- Thomas Jefferson
>
> "It is incumbent on every generationto 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 thelabors of the people, under the
> pretense of taking care of them."-- Thomas Jefferson
>
> "My reading of history convinces me that most bad
> governmentresults 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 armsis,as a last resort, to protect
> themselvesagainst tyranny in government."-- Thomas Jefferson
>
> "The tree of liberty mustbe refreshed from time to timewith
> the blood of patriots and tyrants."-- Thomas Jefferson
>
> "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes, the propagation
> of ideas which hedisbelievesand abhors, issinful
> andtyrannical."-- Thomas Jefferson
>
>
> I wish we could get this out to every American!
>
>
> I'm doing my part.
>
>
> So Please do yours.
>


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