Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped. [Read to the end, you'll see why]
At 5, began studying under his cousins 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 Virginias 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.
Founding Fathers and the teabaggers
ReplyDeleteHere is a perfect example, folks, of a douchbagging, heterophobic dweeb with no respect for our founding principles, much less our founding fathers. To tie the Founders to their filthy reference of "teabagger" reveals just how far off base these Marxist socialists actually are.
ReplyDeleteUnderstand that old fashion big government liberalism is mistaken but patriotic, in that we all are still fascinated by our founding principles and the history borne of The Revolution.
Marxist liberalism is not the same thing. It is the product of folks who would fundamentally transform this country by installing political processes in line with foreign interests and the strategies of those who would bring our country down. Making fun of our founders is part of their strategy. And in that, they are traitors to the ideals of this country.
Understand that there is nothing new about Marxism. It is a failed system of governance, whether expressed in a European version or that found in Russia, the Nazi nationalist perversion of same, or the Neo Communist adaptation that is Red China.
William's comment, brief and telling, demonstrates just how confused/insulting/traitorous these folks are. If his comments were not so representative of the American Marxist Movement, we could let them pass without mention. But, in fact, these five words (William's) say it all.
I am 65 and fr 63 of those years, I worked and watched as my Marxist classmates raised hell and polluted the national debate. Two years ago, that changed. We do not need this debate. They need to be driven out and the conservative movement is about that very task.
I should have added this point to the above set of comments: William is forever free to make his comments on this blog. I say that while knowing that his Marxist chums are busy trying to ban conservative political speech.
ReplyDeleteYou drive them out by completely eviscerating their agenda at the ballot box. And that is what is on the table. The blog is a small part of a huge web of conservative pundits. Some use rhetoric I would not use; some publish pictures and slogans not to my liking, but, in the end, we are all on the same side.
The Williams of the world are very much the enemy -- and that is their description of us, the conservatives. Just listen to MSNBC for fifteen minutes in their afternoon/evening programing if you do not believe me.
We welcome William's crap philosophy on this blog. It makes our goal of destroying the enemy that much easier.
I don't know if you missed the point on William's comment. His hyperlink takes you to a comment from the well know patriot, Bill Maher in which he asserts a separation between the Founders and the conservative TEA Party movement.
ReplyDeleteI do think your point is well taken, however. After listening to Maher's comments, I came back to your blog and reread your Jefferson article. My conclusion is that Maher could not be more in error.
As I have pointed out before:
ReplyDeleteJefferson's original wording in the Declaration made no mention of a "creator". Thomas Jefferson's original wording for the Declaration was:
"All men are created equal and independent. From that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable."
Congress changed that phrase, increasing its religious overtones:
"All men are created equal. They are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights", thinking that would make a more convincing argument to the king who felt his right to rule was from God.
Declaration of Independence does not represent any LAW of the United States. It came before the establishment of our lawful government - the Constitution. The Constitution forms a secular document, and nowhere does it appeal to God, Christianity, Jesus, or any supreme being. Nowhere in the Constitution does it mention religion, except in exclusionary terms.
Jefferson claimed our inalienable rights were derived from "common law" which preceeded Christianity:
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814
"... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Major John Cartwright, June 5, 1824
Further, Jefferson clearly did not respect the divinity of the Christian God:
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823
"We find in the writings of his biographers ... a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications."
-- Thomas Jefferson, to William Short, August 4, 1822, referring to Jesus's biographers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
"...Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Short, August 4, 1820
You don't have to thank me fr the history lesson, but since conservatives are such proficient rewriting history to suit their agenda, I doubt you will learn anything here.