Conviction Quotes

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.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.