Man on the $2.00 Bill.....Thomas Jefferson..
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas JeffersonThis is amazing. There are two parts. Be sure to read the 2nd part.....
PART 1...
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 34, 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.
PART 2....
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.
HIS QUOTES....
"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe ."
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"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
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There is also a Quaker on the $2.00 bill.
Where is he? How can you know he's a Quaker?
"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"
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"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."
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"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
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"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of
arms."
"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."
-- "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
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"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
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AND FINALLY..
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 heir children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
His words were prophetic in many cases..a great mind that helped to form our country!
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Sadly prophetic, are they not?
Interesting that he twice used the word 'when', rather than 'if'.
Lincoln and Kennedy were the only two presidents who attempted to end the Federal Reserve Banking System.
What else do they have in common?
How 'bout if we give folks awhile to figure out that bit of trivia, Avias?
It's in plain sight...if they know what to look for.
Thomas Jefferson had an IQ of 160! He was a genius! I believe he is 1 or 2 of the best presidents our country has ever had!
They're names each have 7 letters
The back of the $2.00 bill is a depiction of a group of U.S. founding fathers.
Three men are standing in the rear.
The standing man on the left differs from all the other men in the room, and the difference identifies him as a Quaker.
He is wearing his hat.
Quakers of that day removed their hat ONLY when praying...
They would...'Pay hat honor to NO man.'