Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
war issues bravery
While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
would-be fundamentals honey
Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them to extract the honey of every sect. My fundamental principle would be ... that we are to be saved by our good works which are within our power, and not by our faith which is not within our power.
bears remarks nations
We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.
perseverance hands risk
We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties.
liberty
We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.
law rose pleasure
We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce.
safety trade deserve
Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.
political breasts
The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.
jesus men thinking
The religion of Jesus is founded in the Unity of God, and this principle chiefly gave it triumph over the rabble of heathen gods then acknowledged. Thinking men of all nations rallied readily to the doctrine of one only God, and embraced it with the pure-morals which Jesus inculcated.
men honor fellow-man
The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.
ideas together new-inventions
The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.
reading writing years
Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty.... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone into my 83rd year, reading one newspaper only and forgetting immediately what I read.
mother country mind
Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.
war thinking blood
Our fellow-citizens think they have a right to full information, in a case of such great concernment to them. It is their sweat which is to earn all the expenses of the war, and their blood which is to flow in expiation of the causes of it.