Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
taken rights perfect
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
nature men information
Man must go back to nature for information.
pain thinking common-sense
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
teacher educational persons
Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.
science men principles
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
pain freedom patriotic
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
country ignorance opposites
Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
revolution principles danger
The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.
wisdom country mean
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer...
heart daggers superstitions
The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
kings war pride
In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.
cheer blow gun
From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree.
remembrance atheism positive-atheism
Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.
motivation ignorance knowledge
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.