Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?

Joseph Conrad

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

If Judge Starr's object of this whole investigation is to net Monica Lewinsky in a conviction and jail time, then we have to look at how our tax dollars are being spent.

Everybody spies on everybody. I was stunned to hear that myself. Someday, I may have to rely on a French satellite to convict an American citizen.

It's highly, highly critical of his reliability. They should have the truth before them, his prior conviction for dishonesty. There is no crime that's more probative than lying to a jury.

That is a message to all convicted sexual offenders. You must register. Otherwise, you will be facing this type of prison term.

It's murder. And a murder conviction shows that transgender lives are valuable.

They convicted an innocent man. The jury made the wrong decision. It's a human system, and the human system has let us down.

The two players could be suspended for life if convicted in a court of law.

The U.S. manufacturing ISM index should show a decent gain today, reinforcing the market's conviction that the U.S. recovery is for real.

They are moving to a speedy conviction ... they have already passed a sentence even before the trial has ended.

John Conyers

They want to get easier convictions, ... When you have a military tribunal, there are very few people who don't get convicted in them just as a matter of course.

Lembit Opik

It's like giving a convicted man on trial the verdict and then saying 'are you happy with that?' - and I think that that's totally unacceptable.

It looks like the market doesn't have a strong conviction about the dollar for the moment.

Vin Diesel

The film describes him as this convicted killer, but doesn't give any explanation or justification for it,

Marcel Proust

Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.

Jose Saramago

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

Newt Gingrich

The heart of the tape is a convicted felon saying he is going to roll over one more time and a federal employee saying to her husband, 'I'm being squeezed by the White House.' That's the heart of these tapes,

Victor Hugo

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Wilbur Ross

The increase in our positions (in the three companies) shows our conviction in the prospects for these holdings. We are delighted with our positive working relationships with each of the management teams.

Eddie Montgomery

A guilty plea is a guilty plea the way I look at it, ... He is found guilty legally. There is no difference. He is a convicted felon at this point. He is out of office. I'm OK with it.

Frederick the Great

I love opposition that has convictions.

The jury made the wrong decision. They convicted an innocent man.

And it is crucial that he be convicted of genocide,

The general public thinks somebody gets convicted of something like this, and they go off to prison for life.

Emile M. Cioran

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

Lyndon B. Johnson

What convinces is conviction.

All of these counts could potentially expose the defendant to hundreds of years if he were to be convicted on all the counts.

Daniel Berrigan

We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Felix Sabates

We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization.

Billy Graham

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

Edgar Ramirez

For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.