Quotes About Thomas

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.

The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

Thin soil like Massachusetts highly cultivated" was the estimate of Congressman Lodge made by Thomas B. Reed, Speaker of the national House of Representatives.

God is a tremendous supporter of creation, especially of all living beings.

I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.

It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment.

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

The girl leaned forward and kissed Thomas on the cheek. "You're sweet. I really hope we don't end up killing you, at least.

The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.

Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true Poem on His Birthday

People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

'National Review' came along, in '55, at the moment when American conservatism most needed it.

St. Thomas sums up all this briefly: "Now the aspect under which our neighbor is to be loved, is God, since what we ought to love in our neighbor is that he may be in God. Hence it is clear that it is specifically the same act whereby we love God, and whereby we love our neighbor. Consequently the habit of charity extends not only to the love of God, but also to the love of our neighbor.

depends on the principle formulated by Aristotle and often recalled by St. Thomas: "The terms of language are the signs of our ideas, and our ideas are the similitude of realities.

Thomas has privileged information about the health status of Jesus in the period after the crucifixion