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Posted on 07/23/2020 12:58:48 PM PDT by upchuck
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 the 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.
Here's a voice from the past to lead us in the future:
"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."
* "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
* "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."
* "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."
* "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
* "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
* "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."
* "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
* "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes, the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."
Jefferson really knew his stuff...
Hat tip to my friend Leo for this.
No, I don’t, but I’m bookmarking this post.
Visited Monticello last year, very nice and enjoyable experience.
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That there have been any defaced or destroyed shows the depths of darkness and ignorance so many so-called Americans live in. We sure are lucky he and others of his amazing generation were around at that time. He has always been among my favorite presidents and Americans.
Y’all are welcome.
I have worked on drawing with one hand while reciting a math equation proof with the other..... well just because I thought chick's would dig it... and I'm a bit of a geek... it is not really possible. At least for me. But I'm also not one of history's greatest thinkers...
I might however, easily be in the top ten at any given bar on a Tuesday night.
It’s no accident the nation has been as successful as it is.
It wasn’t founded by Kalahari Bushmen, no matter how hard the recently arrived Pelosi family tries to convince us it was.
See this list and page search “Jefferson.” One in Ling Island and one in Birmingham. https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3867445/posts
jefferson is my least favorite founding father. he arguably committed treason as washington’s sec’y of state and as adams’ VP. he demonstrated cowardice in the face of the enemy during the revolution. he was a social tinkerer and innovator. he committed the first act of coercion by the central government with the embargo act, where he was willing to commit economic suicide in order to force the country to conform to his personal notion of agrarian utopia.
if he was alive today, jefferson would be an AOC liberal, ready to throw off all social and political norms and traditions in favor of whatever fashionable pet theory he had fallen in love with.
and then there is the fact that he knocked up the enslaved half sister of his dead wife.
it disturbs me when conservatives try to drag jefferson’s corpse as support into any argument.
now, having said all of that, the War on Statues is retarded on every conceivable level; even his.
” ...there is the fact that he knocked up the enslaved half sister of his dead wife.”
https://wallbuilders.com/thomas-jefferson-sally-hemings-search-truth/
A “fact” about which many serious historians remain unconvinced, although one wouldn’t know that from accounts in the MSM.
bkmrk
You are all over the place; read up on the United States’ inept response of ignoring British defiance of the Treaty of Paris for the previous 24 years before the embargo, specifically Washington’s incompetence in the matter (While Jefferson was arguing for a Navy that started during the Articles of Confederation days, and remember Jefferson despised standing armies) as first President under the fresh Constitution.. Also the farmers were harmed much the same as the mercantile/banking class with the embargo (You don’t think we exported goods) so put some tin foil on with in regard to your agrarian conspiracy.
I have read the following about Jefferson, can’t vouch for its authenticity:
In the controversy in his day over the Illuminati and the French Revolution, he sided with both. The fact that he was a Freemason probably had something to do with it.
As to what he believed about God, he was a Deist. He did not believe in the virgin birth.
I thought he was an architect too. I’ve been to Monticello a couple of times.
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Thanks for your correction on that.
In fairness, initially I thought Jefferson was a Freemason too. A couple of research papers later illuminated my mind. He was in a William & Mary internal secret society called the Flat Hat Club. I think he just believed what he saw which is why he shunned miracles/spiritualism/mysticism. Not sure how he thought about his Creator designing the universe from nothing. That is a miracle by all accounts.
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