Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Jefferson was VERY smart

His words are for today.

We are in that situation.





His portrait is on the $2.00 Dollar Bill.

He was amazing



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.



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

Copy and paste, and e-mail to every non-treasonous American you know.

Good one!

We need more men like him.....but, they are very few and far between! His words were a warning, as to what we are seeing happen today! memtb

indeed!

Knowing stuff like this makes me laugh in people’s faces when they brag about their kid being an honor student or get puffed up because they have a degree. Folks nowadays generally wouldn’t be able to hold a conversation with someone like Jefferson, or any of the men he worked with to create this nation. And we think we have advanced.

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AND, he was a Surveyor!

And bred/made his own slaves insted of buying new ones.

Pretty frugal..
Even freed his own kid slaves when they turned 21.


Mighty white of him to do that.....
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My favourite Jefferson Quote”A man should be educated at government expense in useful knowledge”

When asked what constituted ‘useful’ knowledge Jefferson replied
“#1 a man should know how to build his own house”
“#2 a man should know how to build a boat”
“#3 a man should know how to grow his own grain”
“#4 a man should know how to butcher his own beef”
“#5 a man should know how to hunt and fish”

he and the other forefathers had a insight into what was best for this nation all those years ago.brilliance is a understatement.as far as men today on there level,few and far between is basically nill !!!

They had no TV or internet to waste their time.

Jefferson had a population to back him up. A people that knew who they were (much more than today, anyway!), knew the difference between Liberty and license, and had the desire to live free or die.... we ain't got that today.

but he owned slaves and was racist ,so anything he did ,is non and void and we will ignore anything good he did .We have to culture cancel him ,...todays liberals

He had to save the money for his expensive French wine habit.

Madeira!

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A true friend to all free men!