(503 quotes found)
“Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.”
Andrew Johnson
“It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.”
Winston Churchill
“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting”
Gertrude Stein
“I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do”
Margaret Thatcher
“Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction.”
Wilford O. Cross
“Conviction without experience makes for harshness.”
Flannery O'Connor
“We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization.”
Felix Sabates
“Only the person having firm conviction and iron volition can attain strength and energy. At no stage of Karma does he ever hesitate.”
Rig Veda
“The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time”
Franklin Pierce Adams
