Assert

Famous quotes containing the word assert:

“Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.”
—Norman Podhoretz (b. 1930)

“Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

“What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the highth of this great Argument
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justifie the wayes of God to men.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)