Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
veterans-day time motivation
These are the times that try men's souls.
wickedness age-of-reason humankind
Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
freedom fear pain
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
tyranny greater
There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.
degenerates aristocracy tendencies
Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.
aristocracy injustice tyranny
Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.
equality men heaven
All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions.
intimacy infancy lasting
The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.
oppression grows ifs
Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.
second-amendment balance arms
The balance of power is the scale of peace.
punishment roots government
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.
encouragement opportunity world
...we have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
opposites fire religion
Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but it is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the pope, armed with fire and fagot, and the other is the pope selling or granting indulgences.
greatness humanity principles
...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.