From the Inbox - Thomas Jefferson

After reading about the level of Jefferson's life contributions to this country, it leads me to believe that today's candidates for the presidency are nothing but mental midgets!

Thomas Jefferson
was a very remarkable man who started   

learning 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 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 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 take away from those  

who are willing to work and give to those who would not." 
--
Thomas
Jefferson  

   

"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  

   

"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  

   

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government  results
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 arms is,  as a
last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in
government." 
--
Thomas
Jefferson  

   

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to
time  with the
blood of patriots and tyrants." 

--  

Thomas
Jefferson  

   

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves  

and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
--  

Thomas
Jefferson  

   

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."  

   

I wish we could
get this out to every American!  

   

I'm doing my part.   

   

So Please do yours.