Among those principles deemed sacred in America, among those sacred rights considered as forming the bulwark of their liberty, which the Government contemplates with awful reverence and would approach only with the most cautious circumspection, there is no one of which the importance is more deeply impressed on the public mind than the liberty of the press.
I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.
'I contemplate with sovereign reverence," Jefferson wrote, "that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State". The line is hardly subject to misinterpretation but it suffers an abundance of distortions.
'I contemplate with sovereign reverence," Jefferson wrote, "that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State".
"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people [meaning, the First Amendment to the Constitution] which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.
But one he contemplated with particular attention.
"We must thus contemplate amphioxus with special reverence", a "popular scientific lecture" proclaimed, "as that venerable animal which of all still living animals is alone in a position to give us an approximate idea of our oldest Silurian ancestors with backbones" (Haeckel 1868b, p. 42).
Mourning nodded with reverence.
They are spoken of with reverence.
All life is treated with reverence.
"I regard them with reverence".
