#conviction

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Conviction is the conscience of the mind. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Strong convictions precede great actions. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

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An indictment is not a conviction. ↗

— Howard Coble

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When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

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A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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The Petersons have not come forward in the press. Apparently they feel the media bears a large responsibility for Scott's conviction. It may be a while before we hear anything from them. ↗

— Catherine Crier

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