Famous quotes containing the words subject, matter and/or domain:
“He was all the way subject to taciturn fits, but they were harmless ones.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I have heard arguments ... in favor of pardoning D. M. Bennett, convicted of sending obscene matter through the mails, viz., a pamphlet [by Ezra Hervey Heywood] of a polemical character in favor of free love. While I am satisfied that Bennett ought not to have been convicted, I am not satisfied that I ought to undertake to correct the mistakes of the courts—constantly persisted in—by the exercise of the pardoning power.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)