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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. -- Voltaire
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life. -- Thomas Hobbes
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship. -- Mark Steyn
It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years. -- Albert Wynn
Assault weapons ban reintroduced... -- Barack Obama
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. -- Mark Twain
Give it to 'em!" Take 'em down!" First Aleran!" Kick their furry--" Assault formation! -- Jim Butcher
Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault. -- Sheryl Crow
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. -- Barry Commoner
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. -- John Maynard Keynes
Wisdom of the Ages "Assault and Battery" Weather forecast for the St. Louis Rams next Sunday in Seattle. -- Matthew D. Heines
Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets. -- Dianne Feinstein
After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered. -- Plutarch
If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf -- William Butler Yeats
The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault. -- Louise Slaughter
Personal Assault and Battery breeds with no contraception a hateful vengeance for others; A sexual nature that is methodically breeding one's intolerance of Self -- Rosemarie Yusen
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables. -- Catharine MacKinnon
Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital. -- Angela Davis
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. -- Camille Paglia
Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military. -- Louise Slaughter
I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking. -- Joe Eszterhas
Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged. -- Paul Begala
American Dream Is Under Assault. People that haven't been able to find a job in months and this growing sense in this country that this is the new normal, well we can't accept that. -- Marco Rubio
For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation. -- David Horowitz
George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions. -- Bianca Jagger
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations. -- Walter Benjamin
The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray. -- Ethan Hawke
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war growing in intensity and bitterness. -- Stephen Johnson Field
The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country. -- Ed Markey
Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. -- Samuel Dash
There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law. -- Pat Robertson
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. -- Mark Twain
There is no reason for anybody to have an assault weapon. -- Joe Lhota
I do not consider the AK to be the best-ever assault rifle. -- Mikhail Kalashnikov
I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle. -- Joe Manchin
Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page. -- Athol Fugard
Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress, contaminated food and age-related diseases as our lifespans increase. -- Paul Stamets
All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault. -- Paul von Hindenburg
When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall. -- Robert Dallek
Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future. -- Will Self
After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault. -- John B. Hood
While Congress did not, to my knowledge, calculate aggregate dollar values for the nationwide effects of racial discrimination in 1964, in 1994 it did rely on evidence of the harms caused by domestic violence and sexual assault, citing annual costs of $3 billion in 1990 and $5 to $10 billion in 1993. -- David Souter
The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing. -- Jon Meacham
One's own self-worth is tied to the worth of the community to which one belongs, which is intimately connected to humanity in general. What happens in Darfur becomes an assault on my own community, and on me as an individual. That's what the human family is all about. -- Wole Soyinka
NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist? -- Noam Chomsky
Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault. -- Sam Harris
Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular Republican in modern history. Yet he raised taxes 11 times, supported a ban on assault rifles and the Brady Bill, which mandated background checks, and established amnesty for 3 million undocumented workers. -- Mark McKinnon
Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley? -- Lisa Edelstein
People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale. -- Mikhail Kalashnikov
When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser? -- Matt Taibbi
I supported the assault weapon ban. -- Mitt Romney
The American dream is under assault. -- James A. Forbes
The welfare state is an assault on families. -- Larry Elder
Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts. -- Mitt Romney
Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown. -- Sydney Brenner
Apoplexie and lethargie,As forlorn hope, assault the enemy. -- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand. -- Georgia Taylor
You should not have assault rifles in your home. -- Ann Patchett
Comparison is a brutal assault upon oneâ??s self. -- Cameron Diaz
All movies assault the viewer in one way or another. -- Michael Haneke
A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause. -- Ira C. Eaker
Is then no nook of English ground secureFrom rash assault?" -- William Wordsworth
Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women. -- Terry Gross
nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault. -- Ellen Glasgow
We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet. -- Mohammed Morsi
Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault. -- George Herbert
...the only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers... -- Charles Schumer
I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault. -- Jack Tatum
The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion. -- William Bennett
Please don't assault me with that meat amalgam. It would surely cause infection -- Brandon Mull
Impeach President Reagan retroactively for agreeing with Obama on the assault weapons ban. -- John Fugelsang
There is an all-out assault now on the Christian community in this country. -- Rush Limbaugh
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. -- bell hooks
I'm anti-making new laws. I feel like assault is already against the law. -- Mary Katharine Ham
And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban. -- Rahm Emanuel
People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have. -- Jon Stewart
I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States, -- Aaron Klein
I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States. -- Aaron Klein
Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first. -- Don DeLillo
A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon. -- William J. Clinton
Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway. -- Mariska Hargitay
I understand the lifelong scars born by women who are victims of assault and abuse. -- Jeff Sessions
Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings. -- Sissela Bok
This generation must know that the total truthfulness of the bible is under continual assault... -- Albert Mohler
Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people. -- Jim C. Hines
Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
...in my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books. -- Lisa Factora-Borchers
Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions. -- Bryan Singer
If women took up arms to defend their reproductive rights, the GOP would ban assault rifles yesterday. -- Steve Marmel
Simon Crean has painstakingly built a platform for a potentially devastating assault on Howard's fitness for office. -- Margo Kingston
As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman
What Soft--Cherubic Creatures-- These Gentlewomen are-- One would as soon assault a Plush-- Or violate a Star -- Emily Dickinson
Her clothes still smoked from the wizardâ??s assault. But to him, she always smelled of flowers. -- Cinda Williams Chima
You'll get my assault weapon when you pry it out of my curious six-year-old's cold dead hands. -- Anthony Jeselnik
Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy. -- Bill Ayers
I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine. -- Mikhail Kalashnikov
I really hate alcohol. I hate it because it's linked so closely to sexual assault in our culture. -- Ayelet Waldman
My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long. -- Kesha
If a girl gets assaulted, it's not because she was drunk. It's because somebody decided to assault her. -- Jon Shenk
A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity. -- Guenter Lewy
He came over and ruffled my hair, which is technically assault. I could get on the blower to ChildLine. -- Louise Rennison
Correct. President Wallis was the president before the Chinese assault and continued leading the United States throughout the war -- Kiera Cass
I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault. -- Richard L. Hanna
Sexual assault is neither a â??light' nor â??fluffy' matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were. -- Emma Sulkowicz
People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death? -- P. D. James
Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons. -- Glenn Reynolds
Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children I tend to think it's a good idea. -- William Kristol
Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency. -- Bryant McGill
I believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school. -- Claire McCaskill
The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles. -- Jackson Katz
If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle? -- Christine Pelosi
I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here. -- Pamela Geller
We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all. -- George Takei
What you do to prevent further felonious assault, as long as the felon is still capable of action, is justified. -- Jeff Cooper
Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the U.S. military stands for. -- Leon Panetta
Enthusiasm is contagious - so is a lack of it. Joyless Christians are a greater assault on the gospel than atheism. -- Mark Hart
We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see! -- Edward Young
We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade. -- Michael Nutter

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