#assert

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#assertive #best #citizenry #defense #government

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#assert #believe #cannot #gods #had

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#being #existence #infinite #more #perfections

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#exert #fields #itself #life #likely

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#been #case #court #even #government

All sweeping assertions are erroneous. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#erroneous #sweeping

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. ↗

— Thomas Erskine

#bar #constitution #dignity #english #ever

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#doubt #every #further #goes #keeps

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#against #aggression #assert #barren #chose