<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Please read both parts of this email.</span></u></i></b></span></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">T h o m a s J e f f e r s o n <br></span></u></i></b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <br></span></span><font size="5"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 5, began studying under his cousin's tutor. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">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. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 23, started his own law practice. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America? And retired from his law practice.</span></i></font></div></div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span> </font></p></div><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><font size="5"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 33, took three years to revise Virginia's legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 40, served in Congress for two years. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 53, served as Vice President and was elected <br>president of the American Philosophical Society. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican <br>Party. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 57, was elected the third president of the United States. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the</span></i></font></div></div><div><div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">nation's size. <br></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 61, was elected to a second term as President. <br></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 65, retired to Monticello. <br></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine. <br></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president. <br></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams. <br></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">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: <br></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><font face="Verdana, sans-serif">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.” </font><br></i></font></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate;"><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><font size="5"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></font><i style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." </span></i><font size="5"><i></i></font></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate;"><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><font size="5"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">-- Thomas Jefferson <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." <br>-- Thomas Jefferson <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span></font></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate;"><div dir="ltr"><div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><i><font color="#c00000" face="Verdana, sans-serif" size="5">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.” </font></i><font size="5" style="font-family: Calibri;"><i></i></font></div></div></span></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate;"><div style="font-family: Calibri;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><font size="5"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe." <br>-- Thomas Jefferson <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." <br>-- Thomas Jefferson <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">"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." <br>-- Thomas Jefferson <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">"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." <br>-- Thomas Jefferson <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." <br>--Thomas Jefferson <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." <br>-- Thomas Jefferson <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">"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." <br>-- Thomas Jefferson <br></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <br></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wish we could get this out to every American! </span></i></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>