Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
media-control done answers
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
integrity men morality
I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.
country men abuse
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes.
men age buried
Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.
men cities views
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.
liberty opinion tolerate
I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
country southern merchants
The merchant has no country .
patriotic men evil
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
power stronger favors
One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.
funny yield law-students
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour
dream religious book
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own nightly dreams.
men age looks
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
agriculture liberty four
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.
society morality citizenship
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.