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"Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for."

"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."

"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."

"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."

"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."

"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."

"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."

"It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities."

"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct."

"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
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"Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone."
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