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Matter Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
- Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his…
- He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and…
- Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy…
- What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares…
- He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For…
- In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general government. I…
- If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.
- In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must…
- In matters of principal stand like a rock.
- I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility of matter endowed…
- Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his…
More Matter Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as… — Andrea Arnold
- I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person… — Richard Attenborough
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- Hardware works best when it matters the least. — Norman Ralph Augustine