Thomas Jefferson's Prophetic Wisdom

Writer of the Declaration of Independence and one of America's Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson said some rather prophetic statements when compared to today's current political conditions.

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[Kevin Valencia]

There is only one truth but the world has different interpretations of it. Thomas Jefferson is my idol.

[Bruce Wayne]

Jefferson would weep if he could see Virginia now

[Mr54nomore]

Mine too!

[perplexion1991]

" I did't know everybody hates me here " Come on! Just One More Time! "

[Johnson Slavename]

hed do m ore than weep

[54nomore]

" There has never been this much intelligence in one place since Thomas Jefferson dined alone." -President John F. Kennedy to the Nobel Peace Prize winner at a dinner at the White House.

[Mr54nomore]

" If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."-Thomas Jefferson

[Mr54nomore]

" 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."-Thomas Jefferson

[Mr54nomore]

miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium (disgrace) of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christina King of Great Britain. He has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain an execrable commerce {that is he has opposed efforts to prohibit the slave trade},determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold."-Thomas Jefferson

[Mr54nomore]

You are correct on all points except one. It was his home state of Virgina that had closed the death exception in wills after Washington died. Here's the excerpts from the Declaration of Independence on slavery that was omitted. " He (King George) has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people which never offended him, captivating and carry them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur-

[Mr54nomore]

Was Americas first Renaissance Man.

[Mr54nomore]

" Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people (Blacks) are to be free.  Establish the law for educating the common people. This is the business of the state to effect and on a general plan." Thomas Jefferson in his notes on the State of Virginia.