- 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 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 the Democratic-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.
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- 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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- Key quotes from our Uncle Tom!
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- "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 labours 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 subsidise 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 -
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- "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."
- Two hundred years later we are proof of all the above.
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- But who will lead us into the next American Revolution?
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- And when?
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- Alvin-San
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- Jeff - Interesting stuff here.
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- Dr Martin Luther King whilst FAAARR from "perfect"
(aren't we all?) but did indeed work for the betterment of humanity
GLOBALLY. His principle achievement was to INSPIRE untold MILLIONS
to free themselves from racial and illuminist oppression; that such
a thing might even be POSSIBLE to be done.
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- Yet this article focuses only on the negative, the sordid,
the sludge...discarding the Struggle he inspired. http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=193470
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- Thomas Jefferson; whilst he was indeed a prodigy and
Great Man with an illuminated intellect; having accomplished more in a
lifetime than others could in a centuries, is portrayed as a flawless god
of the New World; impeccable of character and achievement, stainless in
standing.
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- Yet none of the forgoing could have been *possible* without
the SLAVES that ENABLED the aristocratic life he so enjoyed that supported
said accomplishments.* His slaves BUILT the renowned Monticello AND their
esteemed gardens, as well.
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- He and his family before him believed in HUMAN BONDAGE
as they held SLAVES under their power
- on pain of DEATH (ultimately).
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- Thomas Jefferson was a SLAVER and a hypocrite.
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- His most favoured Mistress, Sally Hemmings (whom,
it has been suggested, he loved more than his WIFE), was an educated "Mulatto"
woman AND his slave who gave him children. Some of these slaves
(talk about Friends w/BENEFITS...yet another nice deal) are almost certainly my
matriarchal ancestors.
- NONE of the forgoing is mentioned in the O'Brien article http://www.rense.com/general92/great.htm
that sing Jefferson's praises, of course. I find this a typical course
of portrayal of the respective men here in question and find said course
offensive, imbalanced, disingenuous and racist.
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- Alvin-San
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