Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
gratitude eye independence
But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?
taken ideas taxes
It is a general idea, that when taxes are once laid on, they are never taken off.
firsts wonder should
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.
intimacy infancy lasting
The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.
oppression grows ifs
Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.
revenge war heart
America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.
passion uniforms peculiar
It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.
second-amendment balance arms
The balance of power is the scale of peace.
determination real mistake
I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.
errors consistency vices
We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.
kings ambition men
Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against the ambition of kings, the exclamation should be directed against the principle of such governments; and instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a nation should apply itself to reform the system.
creator-god perfect resignation
I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.
loss evil inheritance
Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.
punishment roots government
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.