Assert

Famous quotes containing the word assert:

“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 (1864–1929)

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

“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 Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)