R. B. Thomas Quotes

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

The real minimum wage is zero.

I had a certain system at penalties, I always watched the goalkeeper.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

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

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.