Posted on 08/20/2017 8:12:07 PM PDT by Signalman
Thomas Jefferson Was a very remarkable man who
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."
most intelligence ever to gather at one time in The White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
You forgot to add that he was a white male. this nullifies any achievement he had & is cause for being wished into the cornfield.
Exactly what I was going to say. He was a white male, which nullifies everything else he ever achieved in life.
I would guess that Jefferson was the most intelligent president with the possible exception of TR.
As great as Jefferson was there was one even greater. He finished second in his class at West Point and graduated without a single demerit.
A British Field Marshal who knew most of the great men of his era described Lee as alone, being a man superior in every way to all other men. The best man he ever knew.
Yeah, but could the dude roll a joint without seeds with one hand while driving 65? I mean, like, is he revelent to today’s world man...
Are there any historic figures whom the liberals deem worthy of admiration and honor?
Even liberal or Democrat icons need to have statues and other honors ripped away. For example, FDR was responsible for internment of Japanese-Americans. So he can’t be honored in any way, if we’re going to say that everyone in history needs to have had a 21st century politically correct conscience and worldview.
Heck even Obama, Hillary, and many other Democrat politicians once opposed homosexual marriage. How can they be honored in any way??
Which is the goal! WIPE OUT HISTORY.
None are worthy. Erase history and destroy the country so it can be remade into a Leftist paradise.
A leftist paradise like ... Soviet Russia, Castro’s Cuba...
Yes he owned slaves. He was a man of his time and a man in full. He also happened to write the greatest freedom-defining document in history.
Muhammad owned slaves. We should remove mosques.
“Muhammad owned slaves.”
Thanks to Jefferson and the first Marines, Muhammad’s folks took fewer slaves than they would have otherwise.
So we should build more Jefferson statues.
For later.
LOL, you expect those on the far left of the learning curve to think about that? You’d be lucky if they could even read it.
To put it bluntly, the ignorant, American-hater Left (white Marxists, black racists, Hispanic irredentists, Asia-Americans who are turning to Mao/Red China, and other assorted psychopaths, anarchists, and all around criminal losers), DON’T GIVE A ROYAL CRAP ABOUT THOMAS JEFFERSON OR WHO HE ACCOMPLISHED.
To them, he is a convenient white racist capitalist pig who has to be destroyed in history (academia) and physically (statutes, the Jefferson Memorial, his gravesite, in books, etc).
They cannot be debated, talked to, negotiated with, “admired”, or pandered to. They must be destroyed on all fronts, especially the intellectual one because if we can do that, they will be isolated. Then their only choices will be to reign themselves in or turn to total violence. Being psychopaths, you know which way they will turn, like their predecessor terrorists the Weathermen, Black Panthers, Black Liberation Army, SLA, FALN, etc.
Then we can crush them, once and for all. Right now we need to gather as much information on “who” they are, where they are located, how they fund themselves (or who is behind some of them), and what their strategies and tactics are.
Once we know that, and turn it over to law enforcement, it will be “show time”.
“You’d be lucky if they could even read it.”
No fair, most of it was in cursive.
Obama gave Osama Bin Laden an honorable Islamic funeral. That’s much worse than any “monument”.
Che Guevara was a racist who had discriminatory thoughts about black people.
Jefferson died broke, completely skint—a profligate spendthrift. And he was a soulless ginger, but that’s neither here nor there..
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