Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
rights argument pagan
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.
bills
Our bills shall not be killed.
moments moments-in-time glorious
Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.
differences politics principles
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
family heaven firsts
The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.
freedom government interesting
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
freedom law democracies-have
Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.
freedom age gone
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
knowledge eye men
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.
politics said repent
We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.
4th-of-july independent self
I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.
eye virginia vision
But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.
true-friend wine men
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
education teacher people
Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.