Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
religious government faith-religion
... I have sworn upon the altar of god...
pride luxury united-states
The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what merchant, what laborer ever sees a tax gatherer of the United States?
simple thinking government
With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.
silent nations courses
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
art world enthusiasm
You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure them its praise.
government principles commentary
The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.
men may victim
A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.
practice principles virtue
Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.
men society taste
Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.
society firsts essentials
Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
parent mind misery
Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.
peace passion
Peace is our passion.
happiness influence silent
Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.
religious men thinking
If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.