And this President wakes up every morning looks out across America and is proud to announce 'It could be worse.' It could be worse? Is that what it means to be an American? It could be worse? Of course not. What defines us as Americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better.

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

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have for personal religious convictions not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that without prejudice to existing institutions the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

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

Strong convictions precede great actions.

And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943 both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction accepted by our knowledge and judgment that it is so.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.