Emphatic State

Famous quotes containing the words emphatic and/or state:

    Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
    Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)

    Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a close and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of—[from audience: “soap”Ma reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter].
    I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.
    Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886)