19 Asserted Quotes for You to Enjoy

From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation. W. E. B. Du Bois

Government Day Equality Black Men Half Nation Birth Those More Voices New Powers Anomaly Sought Within Said Sound Governed Than Which Forming Derive Who Asserted Population Lived Nearly Million Consent Slavery Slaves

If a British government experienced such a long and persistent resistance to domestic policy in England, then that policy would almost certainly be changed... We have asserted that we are political prisoners, and everything about out country - our arrests, interrogations, trials, and prison conditions - show that we are politically motivated. Bobby Sands

Government Trials Political Long Country Prison Changed Our Everything Out Would About Almost Policy Arrest Prisoners Motivated Conditions Domestic Domestic Policy Political Prisoners Persistent Politically Experienced Then Show Certainly England Asserted Resistance British British Government

It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section. W. E. B. Du Bois

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Jules Verne

I must repeat what I asserted formerly, that unless some happy expedient can be fallen upon to induce the seamen to enter into the service for a longer term than twelve months, it will never be possible to bring them under proper subordination; and subordination is as necessary, nay, far more so in the fleet than in the army. John Paul Jones

Service Army Happy Will Unless Months Enter Possible Must Some Proper More Never Longer Term Induce Fallen Repeat Than Subordination Expedient Them Far Fleet Twelve Nay Asserted Necessary Bring

For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained. Sam Houston

Me Wise Political Will National Difficult Setting Complete Administration Delicate Maintained Principles Operation Imposing Existence Texas Commencement Task Expected Prudent Successful Body Asserted Based Her Universally

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations? Tony Campolo

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room. Douglas Coupland

In his second Inaugural Address, on March 5, 1821, Monroe admitted at last to a general depression of prices, but only as a means of explaining the great decline in the federal revenue. Despite this, he asserted that the situation of America presented a 'gratifying spectacle.' Murray Rothbard

Depression Great Situation Monroe Despite Address Admitted General Only Federal Prices He Revenue His America Explaining Decline Means Asserted Gratifying March Spectacle Second Last Presented

America is exceptional, it is asserted, because, with the exception of the abolition of slavery, it has been able to extend the promise of liberal reform mostly peacefully, through its democratic institutions. Greg Grandin

Liberal Has-Been Promise Able Abolition Exception Through Exceptional Institutions Democratic Mostly Because Been Reform America Asserted Peacefully Extend Slavery

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know. Derek Bok

Attitude Great Superior Our Way Say Harvard Embarrassment Never Know Any Done Represent Graduates Who Asserted

TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast. Jonathan Zittrain

World Power Sense Broadcast Broadcasting Those Airwaves TV Determined Exceptions Over Around Territories Governments Bandwidth Owned Decide Deciding Then Use Who Asserted Why

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life. Margaret Mahy

Life Time Other Else Once Once More Would Some Someone More Lifetime Had Taken Feel Over Itself Ordinary While Ordinary Life Even Asserted Lived By The Time

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. Jonathan Raban

Negatives Emphatic Over Always Denied May Being Really Asserted Suggest

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men. Orson Pratt

God Government Rights Men Own Thousand Thousand Years Laws Various His Years Times Authority Establish Children Asserted Among Four Last