Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson




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.



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 Independenc e 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."

America Hangs In Balance as God Watches

Subject: About Free STUFF

I AM FORWARDING THIS EMAIL THAT I RECEIVED TODAY.
IT REFLECTS THE FEELINGS OF A LOT OF PEOPLE
I have never heard this said as plain or as well. Class war at its best.
The folks who are getting the free STUFF, don't like the folks who are paying
for the free STUFF, Because the folks who are paying for the free STUFF,
Can no longer afford to pay for both the free STUFF and their own STUFF.
The folks who are paying for the free STUFF, Want the free STUFF to stop
and the folks who are getting the free STUFF, want even more free STUFF
on top of the free STUFF they are already getting!
Now... The people who are forcing the people who Pay for the free STUFF,
Have told the people who are RECEIVING the free STUFF,
That the people who are PAYING for the free STUFF,
Are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.
So... the people who are GETTING the free STUFF,
Have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying
for the free STUFF, by the people who are forcing some people to pay
for their free STUFF, and giving them the free STUFF in the first place.
We have let the free STUFF giving go on for so long, that there are
Now more people getting free STUFF than paying for the free STUFF.
Now understand this. All great democracies have committed financial suicide
somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason?
The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by
electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange
for electing them.
The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 231 years ago. The
number of people now getting free STUFF outnumbers the people paying for the
free STUFF. We have one chance to change that in 2012. Failure to change that
spells the end of the United States as we know it.
ELECTION 2012 IS COMING
A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!
I'M 100% for PASSING THIS ON !!! Let’s Take a Stand!!!
Obama: Gone!
Borders: Closed!
Language: English only
Culture: Constitution, and the Bill of Rights!
Drug Free: Mandatory Drug Screening before Welfare!
NO freebies to: Non-Citizens!
We the people are coming.

How government works

Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night." So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.
Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?" So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.
Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?" So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports.
Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?" So They created two positions: a time keeper and a payroll officer, then hired two people.
Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?" So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.
Then Congress said, "We have had this command in operation for one Year and we are $918,000 over budget, we must cutback." So they laid off the night watchman.
NOW slowly, let it sink in.
Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter.
Does anybody remember the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY..... during the Carter Administration?
Anybody?
Anything?
No?
Didn't think so!
Bottom line. We've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency....the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember!
Ready?? It was very simple..and at the time, everybody thought it very appropriate.
The Department of Energy was instituted on 8/04/1977, TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
Hey, pretty efficient, huh???
AND NOW IT'S 2010 -- 33 YEARS LATER -- AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS "NECESSARY" DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR. IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES; AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE! (THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY, "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?")
33 years ago 30% of our oil consumption was foreign imports. Today 70% of our oil consumption is foreign imports.
Ah, yes -- good old Federal bureaucracy.
NOW, WE HAVE TURNED OVER THE BANKING SYSTEM, HEALTH CARE, AND THE AUTO INDUSTRY TO THE SAME GOVERNMENT?
Hello!! Anybody Home?
NOVEMBER, NOVEMBER, NOVEMBER! Take out the trash!!

Yup Sums it up all right

THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
This one is a little different... . Two Different Versions.... .......... .... Two Different Morals

OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away..
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

CURRENT GOVERNMENT VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus , and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on theant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.

I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant - not a grasshopper! Make sure that you pass this on to other ants. Don't bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it, anyway.

Guam

Seriously It would be impossible to make this up
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/04/01/dem_congressman_guam_might_tip_over_if_it_gets_overpopulated.html

What Drives the Elected Class? Money!

What Drives the Elected Class? Money!

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Thomas Jefferson

I know all the lefties have to say about our forefathers is that there were a bunch of fanitical slave owners.
I disagree

It has been said the greatest volume of sheer brainpower in one place
occurred when Jefferson dined alone..." John Kennedy

HOW DID JEFFERSON KNOW THESE THINGS??????
Especially read the last quote from 1802.
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we
shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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
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..'

'If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the
newspaper you are misinformed.'
Mark Twain