That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. Christopher Hitchens
Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. Christopher Hitchens
It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm. William Winwood Reade
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. Leslie Stephen
A declaratory sentence can be asserted, because it is an incomplete symbol, of indeterminate modality; while a question, a command, an invective, or any other sentence of fixed intention can no more be asserted than could my act of hewing wood or of drinking tea. Michael Polanyi