Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
lawyer ancestor laborers
Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.
country men choices
Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.
law towns said
There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.
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.
believe enemy citizens
I believe from what I have lately seen that we should be substantially safe were our Citizens Armed, but we have not as many Arms as we have Enemies in the State.
war thinking enemy
But is an enemy so execrable that tho in captivity his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I think not. It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
character law judging
Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.
4th-of-july heaven exclusion
I thank heaven that the 4th. of July is over. It is always a day of great fatigue to me, and of some embarrassments from improper intrusions and some from unintended exclusions.
fire mouths matter
So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.
believe safety liberty
Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning - not simply believing - has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it.
cutting feet censorship
Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?
government paper paper-money
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.
people principles common
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.
roots people growth
Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.