Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
progress citizens banking
The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.
abuse paper advantage
That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.
country forever paper
The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals it is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
paper poverty ghost
Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.
class people wish
Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.
men law ethics
I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
fall rights acting
God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly towards all, benevolently to those who fall within our way, respecting sacredly their rights, bodily and mental, and cherishing especially their freedom of conscience, as we value our own.
rights natural authority
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
rights government resorts
It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.
fixing essentials honest
It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.
mean giving inalienable-rights
It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.
rights individual members
What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.
kings pursuit-of-happiness men
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings.
men animal rights
Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.