Jefferson "Remarkable Man" - How Did He Know?

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 Burgess's.

 

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 muchgovernment." --

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."