Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
fire mouths matter
So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.
believe safety liberty
Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning - not simply believing - has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it.
cutting feet censorship
Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?
government paper paper-money
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.
roots people growth
Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.
freedom blessing government
May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
party passion men
Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.
benefits monopoly suppression
The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.
selfish men earth
How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.
cost vigilance eternal-vigilance
The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance
No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.
government trying libertarian
ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.
law cost taste
Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.
religious atheist faith-religion
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God