Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
second-amendment arms use
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
trust time democracies-have
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
life friendship happiness
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
motivational crush morning
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
money war famous-inspirational
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
men animal quality
Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.
achieve abandon security
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
thinking america presidential
I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.
men liberty libertarian
The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
promise liberty new-inventions
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.
law together moral
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.
blessing simple government
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.
government order giving
And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate engine of government. Educate and inform the whole mass of people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
government latter newspapers
If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter