Thomas Jefferson- a Prophet?

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Thomas Jefferson

His Portrait is on the Two $2.00 Dollar Bill.

This is amazing. There are two parts.
Be sure to read the 2nd part (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, 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 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."


Thomas Jefferson Quotes - 504 Quotes
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The Greatest Danger

To Our American Freedoms

Is A Government

That Ignores The Constitution---

Thomas Jefferson

[deadeye]

Indeed he was. As most folks could be if they studied the real history of civilization. (Not the libtard "revised" history being taught in our universities today.) One of the things that is supposed to separate humans from animals is that humans learn from the past. Anybody wanna bet on that????? When Cleopatra said the Egyptian empire would live forever, her chief adviser said no, it will not. Civilizations will always be buried by its accountants and lawyers. (80% of politicians are failed lawyers.)

[TheTman]

I don't know if he was so much a prophet, or a student of history, and saw the same cycles repeated over and over and learned from that. We are much like Rome, during it's decline. All manner of perversions are rampant. Our leaders for the most part are corrupt, and work for the will of Corporations and other interests, instead of for The People. Our borders are not secure.
Our Armies are stationed halfway across the globe, fighting a war that no one has won, since Alexander The Great. For what reason? As soon as we leave, the Taliban will come out of their rat holes, and back from Pakistan, and things will revert to the way it was before we invaded. The Russians must really be laughing their butts off. They couldn't control the country, and it's right on their border. Of course we supplied the "resistance" with all manner of weapons, and advisors and who knows what else, to help defeat the Russians, and now we are in much the same position they were.
Only the "resistance" has turned into the Taliban and is now our enemy. I wonder if the Russians are helping them out the way we did when they were fighting the Russians?
Then we stab our soldiers in the back, and throw them in Prison for 20 years for opening fire on a motorcycle bearing down on them that ignored orders to stop. Our soldiers have one hand tied behind their backs by libtard politicians. Just like in Viet Nam, the politicians get involved in areas they shouldn't and make a big mess of things. I guess our soldiers are supposed to wait until some crazed motorcycle rides into their base and sets off a bomb, before they can take any action. Ridiculous, and a very dangerous situation to for our troops. I think the biggest accomplishment the war has done, was allow the European banks to be full of drug money again, since the opium poppies are flourishing as never before. The banks were suffering, as the Taliban had all but eliminated the opium poppies fields. No problem, USA to the rescue, and the banks in Europe are now full of freshly laundered drug profits. Totally insane. There is no war on drugs, except when it suits some DA's purpose. Too many bigwigs are making too much money for the drug trade to be stopped.