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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about essential, liberty, character, change, nothing, love, people

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.

Quote by Franklin P. Adams about problems, experience, country, faith, time, people, contentment

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Quote by Michael Caine about things, end

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about tradition, philosophy

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about proudness, vanity, public, human imperfections

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about man

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

Quote by John Dos Passos about haven, people