Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
government america people
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
men thinking down-and
The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
education teacher people
Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.
freedom age gone
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
paper peculiar constitution
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
law president guilt
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
destiny heaven religion
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
men liberty may
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
freedom law abuse
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.
rain feet clouds
How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!
government liberty constitution
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.
pride cost hunger-and-thirst
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
freedom 4th-of-july government
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
religious atheist fear
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.