Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
barbecue vigilance eternal-vigilance
The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.
men president feels
I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place.
christian jesus simple
When, in short, we shall have unlearned everything which has been taught since his [Jesus'] day, and got back to the pure and simple doctrines he inculcated, we shall then be truly and worthily his disciples: and my opinion is that if nothing had ever been added to what flowed purely from his lips, the whole world would at this day have been Christian.
believe hard-work luck
I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much
decision heaven mind
Shake off all the fears and servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in the seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of God, because if there be one, he must approve of the homage of reason rather than that of blindfolded fear...Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable not for the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision.
children passion wrath
The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
hemp acres patches
An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.
careers figures made
We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.
rain people faces
People are strange, when you are a stranger.... Faces come out in the rain, When you're strange......
defense educated nations
A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry
way tyranny dependence
Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.
blessing rights evil
The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its object. But the good in this instance vastly outweighs the evil.
luxury comfort add
Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.
government citizens taxation
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.