Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
dream blessing agriculture
At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams.
politics economy guides
We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.
evil employment banking
We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.
generations debt may
We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.
country independent years
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.
native-american sheep government
I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate.
land sea rising
A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.
eye community spirit
Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.
differences inquiry opinion
Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.
independence taught comfort
Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.
oratory vices amplification
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.
humor practice all-time
Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.
names wish goes-on
My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.
health mind body
The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.