Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
obeying-god tyranny resisting
Resisting tyranny is obeying God
informed-citizens informed-citizenry citizenry
An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.
berries juice
The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.
virginia ugly stones
The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.
virginia parent climate
When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.
retirement office debt
I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.
lawyer ancestor laborers
Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.
legends fantasy
Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies
virginia generations looks
It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.
get-well medicine patient
The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.
worship compulsion distinguished
Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
ministers merchants
Ministers and merchants love nobody.
newton euclid given
I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.
often-is views errors
I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.