Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.

I have the courage of my convictions.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid a coward knows when you are not.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts and to stand by their convictions even to the very death.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls by God we go and we do the best that we can.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right not from policy.

The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.