Contended Quotes

29 quotes by 28 authors

in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and… — Thomas Jefferson
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that… — Zig Ziglar
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious:… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we… — George Washington
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only… — Alexander Hamilton
I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to know… — James Madison
Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them… — Adlai Stevenson I
I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race… — Sarah Winnemucca
If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most… — Patricia Hampl
Blessed be the memory of those few brethren who contended so strenuously for their constitutional rights and religious freedom, against such an overwhelming force of… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and… — Robert E. Lee
There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill… — George Washington
I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons. — Donald Rumsfeld
You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain… — Carlos E. Asay
In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the… — William H. Wharton
God hath long contended with a stubborn world, and thrown down many a blessing upon them; and when all his other gifts could not prevail,… — Henry Scougal
The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me. — Donald Miller
Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial. — Charles R. Swindoll
I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my… — Robert Louis Stevenson

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