Thomas Jefferson - Take the time to read ALL of this

It would be interesting to know what Jefferson's IQ was.

I'm afraid there are very few brilliant people to lead our country any longer.  And the people who are brilliant can't stand

Thomas
Jefferson

                                                   His Portrait is on the Two $2.00 

Dollar Bill.

 

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.

 

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

 

 

I wish we could
get this out to every American!

 

I'm doing my
part.

 

So Please do
yours.