Friday, December 28, 2012

Thomas Jefferson - REMEMBER

Subject: Thomas Jefferson WOW!!! this is MOST important READ AND REMEMBER
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It is time to wake up the people and stand for their freedom.  It is never too late to be right.
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There are two parts. Be sure to read the 2nd part (in  yellow).
> Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very
> early in life and never stopped.
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> At 5, began studying under his cousin's tutor.
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> At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.
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> At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.
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> At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.
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> At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.
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> At 23, started his own law practice.
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> At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
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> At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of
> British America and retired from his law practice.
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> At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
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> 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.
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> At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia, succeeding Patrick Henry.
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> At 40, served in Congress for two years.
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> At 41, was the American minister to France , and negotiated
> commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and
> John Adams.
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> At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.
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> At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the
> American Philosophical Society.
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> At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions, and became the active head
> of Republican Party.
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> At 57, was elected the third president of the United States.
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> At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase , doubling the nation's size.
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> At 61, was elected to a second term as President.
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> At 65, retired to Monticello .
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> At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.
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> At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia ,
> and served as its first president.
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> At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration
> of Independence, along with John Adams
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> 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:
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> 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."
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> "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we
> shall become as corrupt as Europe ." -- Thomas Jefferson
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> "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
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> "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
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> "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
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> "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results
> from too much government." -- Thomas Jefferson
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> "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson
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> "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
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> "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the
> blood of patriots and tyrants." -- Thomas Jefferson
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> "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas
> which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."-- Thomas
> Jefferson
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> 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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6 comments:

  1. Lets send this to Obama and those in congress and senate.

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  2. And just where are all our Thomas Jefferson's of today...actually, we'll settle for just one!!

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  3. We need a Thomas Jefferson in the White House, not a George Jefferson in the White House.

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  4. HOW WILL WE KNOW WHEN THEY REVALUE? DOE'S ANYONE KNOW

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  5. Benjamin Franklin was exiting after writing the U.S. constitution, a woman asked him "Well, Doctor, what have we got—a republic or a monarchy?". He replied "A republic—if you can keep it. (http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch18I.html)

    Our democratic republic seems to have slipped-- degenerated-- into more democracy than republic. The public votes of our recent presidential election demonstrate how diverse, or divided, is our 'demos', i.e., people. How can we maintain this republic when we,the people, think only of themselves and not of others?

    The vision of a free nation has been lost. We no longer understand from what tyranny we are freed. We now consider freedom little more than our 'guarantee' of individual rights to pursue comfort and pleasure, which is not translated as the Government's mandate to provide individual comforts and pleasures, read, 'entitlements'.

    Shining, our nation no longer can focus on a guiding light, or a common vision. That original vision of our founding fathers faded, and now some would attempt to replace it with party platform. Neither the Republican, nor the Democratic party platform is grand enough to unite our people. These platforms only encourage selfishness on both sides. They breed politicians, but leave no room for statesmen. I believe we are replaying history, like that which led to the decline and fall of the Roman Republic. The forces from without could only push down those wall, or ours, because of the decay within!

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