Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
government purpose abandoned
The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
two saws argument
I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.
government people mind
I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.
animal generations earth
No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.
spring issues patents
The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
animal doctors hands
SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have puzzled me not a little, had it not been for the model with which you accompanied it, of Doctor Rush's answer to a similar inquiry. I live so much like other people, that I might refer to ordinary life as a history of my own. Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately, eating very little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principle diet.
new-orleans yield history
There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants.
history people together
We might have been a free and great people together.
gratitude grateful bitter
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.
gratitude smooth handle
Take things always by their smooth handle.
gambling risk tickets
A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.
atmosphere storm littles
I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
love perfect desert
Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
christian hatred religion
Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.