"I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state."

Conviction, Defense, Satisfaction, State

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"I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state."

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"We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in."

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"An indictment is not a conviction."

Howard Coble, American Politician

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"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."

Vincent van Gogh, Dutch Artist

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"There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians."

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"If you truly have faith in your convictions, then your convictions should be able to stand criticism and testing."

DaShanne Stokes, American Author

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"A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight."

Jeffrey Fry, American Author

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"When you lack the courage to publicly defend biblical truth, it is a clear testimony that you lack the Holy Spirit. The gift of the Holy Spirit is a gift of no fear."

Felix Wantang, Cameroonian Author

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"If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction."

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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, American Journalist

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"It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way."

Money, Travel, Lie, Being

"The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it."

Acting, Employees, Murder, President

"The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug."

People, Heart, Employees

"I'm not in the business of harassing anybody."

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"The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy."

Jury, Participation

"My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state."

Power, Books, Country, Rights

"It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery."

Assassination, Mystery

"I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?"

Man, Night, Pleasure, Sleep

"I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security."

Experience, America, Fascism, Name

"To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire."

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