Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
giving force
Force cannot give right.
law important execution
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.
men body action
No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.
government
That government that governs least governs best.
simple government branches
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.
oratory vices amplification
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.
independence taught comfort
Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.
differences inquiry opinion
Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.
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.
land sea rising
A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.
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.
men sea liberty
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
government europe america
The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe.
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.