Getting all mail from a gmail account

I am trying to download all my old emails from an gmail account via thunderbird. The main reason is for backup. The problem is that each time I push on GET MESSAGES it only downloads a few mails. I need to wait till it ends and then click again and so on. It will take a lot of time from my work. Is it any way to download all at a time or at least a huge amount each time???
I am using a MacBook Pro, running MAC OS X 10.9.5 and thunderbird 31.2.0.
Thanks in forehand

see http://gmailblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/download-copy-of-your-gmail-and-google.html
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