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 theCollegeofWilliamand 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 ofBritish Americaand retired from his law practice.

At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.

At 33, wrote the Declaration ofIndependence.

At 33, took three years to reviseVirginia’s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.

At 36, was elected the second Governor ofVirginia, succeeding Patrick Henry.

At 40, served in Congress for two years.

At 41, was the American minister toFrance, 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 theKentuckyResolutions, and became the active head of Republican Party.

At 57, was elected the third president of theUnited States.

At 60, obtained theLouisiana Purchase, doubling the nation’s size.

At 61, was elected to a second term as President.

At 65, retired toMonticello.

At 80, helped President Monroe shape theMonroeDoctrine.

At 81, almost single-handedly created theUniversityofVirginia, 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

Jeffersondined alone.”

“When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as inEurope, we shall become as corrupt asEurope.” — 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.”