This is the second article in a series in support of the US Constitution.  We want to share some of the quotes by a great American, Thomas Jefferson, in the attachment.  Thomas Jefferson was one of the Founding Fathers, was a member of the Continental Congress, was a proponent of the Revolution, wrote the Declaration of Independence, was serving in France as the Minister to France when the US Constitution was being drafted in the colonies, served as the Revolution wartime Governor of Virginia, was the first Secretary of State under President George Washington, served as the Vice President of the United Stated under President John Adams, served as the 3rdPresident of the United States (1801-1809), purchased the Louisiana Territory, sent the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the west (1804-1806), signed into law a bill in 1807 that banned the importation of slaves into the United States, was the architect of his pristine Monticello home near Charlottesville, Virginia, founded the University of Virginia, was a lawyer, planter, architect, naturalist, meteorologist, paleontologist, botanist, musician (violinist), Native American collector, and wrote 16,000 letters in his lifetime. 

Many members of Congress have forgotten the charge that President Thomas Jefferson passed on to future generations in his attempt to guarantee the freedoms we were given by the Founding Fathers in US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  The below listed 20 endorsed Combat Veterans For Congress have demonstrated that they understand the charge President Thomas Jefferson gave to them; they continue to protect and defend the US Constitution.  The Combat Veterans For Congress, at one point in their lives, wrote blank checks made payable to “The United States of America” for an amount “up to and including their lives.”  We will continue to recruit, endorse, campaign for, and help elect a new slate of conservative and patriotic Combat Veterans For Congress to run in the 2014 mid-term election. 

Unfortunately, the current occupant of the Oval Office, by his actions over the last 4 years, has demonstrated to the American people that he does not understand the charge President Jefferson gave to every future President to protect and defend the US Constitution.  Obama has been violating the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendments to the Constitution, has driven the nation into $17 trillion in debt on his way to $20 trillion in debt, does not understand the Military Code of Conduct or the Rules of Engagement that the US Armed Forces by never leaving any man behind, does not understand the patriotic character & 238 year heritage of the Republic’s Free Enterprise System, and has not been forthright or honest with the American people on many issues (the Attorney General’s illegal sale of guns to Mexican drug cartels in Fast & Furious, the State Department’s betrayal of 4  Americans in Benghazi, the IRS abuse of the freedom for all American to organize accorded by the Constitution, the NSA abuse of privacy and the 4th Amendment by trolling thru billions of phone records each day, preventing Military Chaplains from reading letters to the congregation from their cardinals in the pulpits in violation of freedom of speech and religion)

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John Kennedy once said to an assembled group of scholars in the White House, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of human talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." 

The quotes below could prove President Kennedy's Point.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
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 of the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson

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.
Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson

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.
Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson


A Final Very Interesting Quote:

In light of the present financial crisis, the out of control spending, and the unsustainable debt, it's interesting what President Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1802:

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