Quotes About Conviction

Sometimes it seems that men--yes, and even women too!--if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn't have believe possible.

I know that two and two make four - & should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

Ata që nuk do të arsyetojnë, janë fanatikë, ata që nuk munden, janë të marrë, dhe ata që nuk guxojnë, janë skllevër.

Anachron's Law: There is no myth which is so irrational that no one will believe it. Anachron's Corollary: There is no truth which is so obvious that everyone will accept it.

Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

If? The word is when.

Give me the wisdom to know what must be done and the courage to do it.

Some would fight for any cause, some for none at all.

The path of faith was a crooked one.

The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.

To Hell With Compromises

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.