Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
reading citizens looks
I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.
I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.
dream reflection hints
We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.
gun strong-arms crime-books
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
berries juice
The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.
cities government support
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.
informed-citizens informed-citizenry citizenry
An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.
religious wall religion
Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.
father civilization ideas
What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness but a bigoted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots rather than indulge in the degeneracies of civilization?
gratitude effort age
The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.
class use genius
By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.
light together liberty
Light and liberty go together.
fashion mind principles
We are now trusting to those who are against us in position and principle, to fashion to their own form the minds and affections of our youth... This canker is eating on the vitals of our existence, and if not arrested at once, will be beyond remedy.
sweet home son
The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to receive the holy charge which we are cherishing to deliver over to them; that in establishing an institution of wisdom for them, we secure it to all our future generations; that in fulfilling this duty, we bring home to our own bosoms the sweet consolation of seeing our sons rising under a luminous tuition, to destinies of high promise; these are considerations which will occur to all.