Assembly Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have a lot of hope for the Constituent Assembly.

  Evo Morales

  Constituents

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Party, Oysters, Letters

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• As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Opportunity, House, Chairs

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

  Charles James Fox

  Kings

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• Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

  James Darren

  Cutting, Tv Shows, Special

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• Canada has made a strong commitment as a partner in the International Space Station and, like the other partners, wishes to see the assembly of this unique orbiting laboratory continue.

  Marc Garneau

  Strong, Commitment, Unique

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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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• A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

  Christopher Morley

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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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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• The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Military, Intelligent, Enemy

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• Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

  Roald Dahl

  Teacher, Prayer, Benches

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.46, Penguin

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• With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, America, Goal

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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