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8 quotes by Thomas Day

Thomas Day (22 June 1748 – 28 September 1789) was a British author and abolitionist. He was well known for the children's book The History of Sandford and Merton (1783–1789) which emphasized Rousseauvian educational ideals.
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We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

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In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

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But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their... →

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But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

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The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently... →

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When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

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I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

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But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights... →

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