[BITList] Who was Thomas Jefferson?

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>                         */_THOMAS JEFFERSON_/* *//*
>
>                         */
>                         /**/This is amazing. There are two parts. Be
>                         sure to read the 2nd part/* */, too/* */(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 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."* *
>                         *
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