Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
faces opinion conformity
Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.
retirement humble government
If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
virginia should-have institutions
A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]
amusement
We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.
youth periods fortune
The fortune of our lives depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
unions separation states
If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.
majority-rule tyranny-of-the-majority minorities
Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.
agree-upon two agree
What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.
oratory vices amplification
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.
parent mind misery
Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.
society firsts essentials
Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
silent nations courses
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
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.