Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
government wish taxation
Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.
horse team taxation
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.
flames liberty generations
I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . . . would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it.
long abuse virtue
My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.
character men giving
I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.
people earth peculiar
Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
doors giving perfect
It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be to throw open the doors of commerce, and to knock off all its shackles, giving perfect freedom to all persons for the vent to whatever they may choose to bring into our ports, and asking the same in theirs.
thinking perfect liberty
I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
government useless honest
A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.
giving-up earth morality
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.
flames july too-much
The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.
drawing civil-rights teeth
The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.
patriotism liberty civil-rights
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
country men debt
There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.