Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Abraham Lincoln
Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power. Robert G. Ingersoll
This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened. Jack Kevorkian
You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man. Kahlil Gibran
The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied. Edward Jenks
Vile let him be who deems himself vile. Portuguese Proverb