<html> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <link rel=Edit-Time-Data href="Thomas%20Jefferson%20(%20must%20read)_files/editdata.mso"> <link rel=themeData href="Thomas%20Jefferson%20(%20must%20read)_files/themedata.thmx"> <link rel=colorSchemeMapping href="Thomas%20Jefferson%20(%20must%20read)_files/colorschememapping.xml"> <style> <!-- .WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --> </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link=blue vlink=purple class="Normal" lang=EN-US> <div class=WordSection1> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <blockquote> <blockquote> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><u><span style='font-size:36.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>Thomas Jefferson</span></u></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black'>His Portrait is on the Two $2.00 Dollar Bill.</span></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>This is amazing.&nbsp; There are two parts.&nbsp; </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>Be sure to read the 2nd part (in </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family: Consolas;color:red'>RED</span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt; font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>).</span></i></b></p> <div> <div> <div> </div> </div> </div> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who<br> started learning very early in life </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>and never stopped.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 5, began studying under his cousin's tutor. </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.<br> Also could write in Greek with one hand </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>while writing the same in Latin with the other.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 23, started his own law practice.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 31, wrote the widely circulated &quot;Summary View </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>of the Rights of British America ?</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>And retired from his law practice.<br> &nbsp;</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 33, took three years to revise Virginia 's legal code </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>and wrote a Public Education bill</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>and a statute for Religious Freedom.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>succeeding Patrick Henry.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 40, served in Congress for two years.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 41, was the American minister to France </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations, </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>of the American Philosophical Society.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>and became the active head of Republican Party.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 57, was elected the third president of the United States.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase, </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>doubling the nation's size.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 61, was elected to a second term as President.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 65, retired to Monticello.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>and served as its first president.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>of the Declaration of Independence,</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>along with John Adams.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>the previous failed attempts at government.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>He understood actual history, </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>the nature of God,</span></i></b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>&nbsp;</span></u><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>His laws and the nature of man.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>That happens to be way more than what most understand today.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>Jefferson really knew his stuff.</span></i></b></p> <div> <div> <div> </div> </div> </div> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>A voice from the past to Lead us in the future-</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt; color:black'>&nbsp;</span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>for a group of the brightest minds</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>in the nation at that time.&nbsp; He made this statement:</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>&quot;This is perhaps the assembly</span></i></b><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>&nbsp;</span></u><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>of the most intelligence </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>ever to gather at one time in the White House </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:navy'>with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.&quot;</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>&quot;When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>we shall become as corrupt as Europe .&quot;<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>&quot;The democracy will cease to exist </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>when you take away from those who are willing to work</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>and give to those who would not.&quot;</span></i></b><br> <b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>-- Thomas Jefferson</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>&quot;It is incumbent on every generation </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>to pay its own debts as it goes.&nbsp; </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>A principle which if acted on</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>would save one-half the wars of the world.&quot;</span></i></b><br> <b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>-- Thomas Jefferson</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>&quot;I predict future happiness for Americans </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>if they can prevent the government</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>from wasting the labors of the people</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>under the pretense of taking care of them.&quot;<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>&quot;My reading of history convinces me that most bad government </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>results from too much government.&quot;<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>&quot;No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.&quot;<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>&quot;The strongest reason for the people </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>to retain the right to keep and bear arms </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>is, as a last resort, to protect themselves</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>against tyranny in government.&quot;</span></i></b><br> <b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>-- Thomas Jefferson</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>&quot;The tree of liberty must be refreshed&nbsp; </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>from time to time with the blood </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>of patriots and tyrants.&quot;<br> -- Thomas Jefferson</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>&quot;To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes<br> the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.&quot;</span></i></b><br> <b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>-- Thomas Jefferson</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>&quot;I believe that banking institutions </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>If the American people ever allow private banks<br> to control the issue of their currency, </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>first by inflation, then by deflation,</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>the banks and corporations that will grow up</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>around the banks will deprive the people</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>of all property -</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>until their children wake-up homeless </span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#C00000'>on the continent their fathers conquered.&quot;</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black'>I wish we could get this out to every American!</span></i></b></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#800040'>I'm doing my part.&nbsp; So Please do yours.</span></i></b></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>