Assembly Quotes

Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Christian, Blessing, Names

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.

Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom, Battle, Speech

"Die Russische Revolution". Book by Paul Froelich, 1940.

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The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgiveness, Men, World

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.159, Penguin

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I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly.

Evo Morales

Constituents

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It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Douglas Alexander

Scotland, Church, Edinburgh

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I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Angelina Jolie

Grateful, People, Honor

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The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Thinking, Goal, March

Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

Harri Holkeri

Issues, President, Better Life

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There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

Harri Holkeri

Eye, Issues, President

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Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions

Hjalmar Branting

Taken, Years, League

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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

Earl Warren

Towers, World, Bells

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For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed.

James T. Walsh

Running, Business, Government

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Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

John Nelson Darby

Character, Doe, Different

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If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

Matt Blunt

Stupid, Increase, Taxes

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Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

Charles James Fox

Kings

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My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.

Philip E. Berger

Focus, Effort, Messages

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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

Jacques Barzun

Principles, Splits, Way

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I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

Gale Gordon

Thinking, Perfect, Television

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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

Boris Pasternak

Simple, Speak, Grass

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And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

Hjalmar Branting

League, Century, States

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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

W. H. Auden

Hell, Factories, Walks

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Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Joseph Rotblat

Nuclear, Weapons, Firsts

Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Victor Hugo

Halloween, Greatness, Mountain

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6986, Delphi Classics

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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis D. Brandeis

Fear, Men, Religion

"Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 376". Concurring opinion, 1927.

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In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fear, War, Fire

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.607, Best Books on

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