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The profession of politics, they would agree with political writer Frank Kent, is not immoral, simply nonmoral: Probably the most important single accomplishment for the politically ambitious is the fine art of seeming to say something without doing so......The important thing is not to be on the right side of the current issue but on the popular side ....regardless of your own convictions or of the facts.†
Chpt 0.1
But Webster's support of the business interests of New England was not the result of the money he obtained, but of his personal convictions.†
Chpt 2.3
But, although he sought to explain his objectives and reassure his friends of his continued opposition to slavery, he nevertheless insisted he would stand on the principle of my speech to the end......If necessary I will take the stump in every village in New England......What is to come of the present commotion in men's minds I cannot foresee; but my own convictions of duty are fixed and strong, and I shall continue to follow those convictions without faltering......In highly excited times it is far easier to fan and feed the flames of discord, than to subdue them; and he who counsels moderation is in danger of being regarded as failing in his duty to his party.†
Chpt 2.3
But, although he sought to explain his objectives and reassure his friends of his continued opposition to slavery, he nevertheless insisted he would stand on the principle of my speech to the end......If necessary I will take the stump in every village in New England......What is to come of the present commotion in men's minds I cannot foresee; but my own convictions of duty are fixed and strong, and I shall continue to follow those convictions without faltering......In highly excited times it is far easier to fan and feed the flames of discord, than to subdue them; and he who counsels moderation is in danger of being regarded as failing in his duty to his party.†
Chpt 2.3
I also am a Southern man, but vote nationally on national issues......I am Southern by my birth—Southern in my convictions, interests and connections, and I shall abide the fate of the South in everything in which she has right on her side.†
Chpt 2.4
and no power could force me to decide on such a case contrary to my convictions, whether that party was composed of my friends or my enemies.†
Chpt 3.6
But in this particular case, he insisted, "their wishes are directly in conflict with the convictions of my whole life; and had I voted [on the Matthews Resolution] as directed, I should have cast my first vote against my conscience."†
Chpt 3.7
A massive but lonely figure on the Senate floor, Lucius Lamar spoke in a quiet yet powerful voice, a voice which "grew tremulous with emotion, as his body fairly shook with agitation": Mr. President: Between these resolutions and my convictions there is a great gulf.†
Chpt 3.7
Then it will be for them to determine if adherence to my honest convictions has disqualified me from representing them;†
Chpt 3.7 *
and, armed with honest convictions of my duty, I shall calmly await the results, believing in the utterance of a great American that "truth is omnipotent, and public justice certain."†
Chpt 3.7
For when George Norris had first entered the House of Representatives in 1903, fresh from the plains of Nebraska, he had been a staunch, conservative Republican, "sure of my position," as he later wrote, "unreasonable in my convictions, and unbending in my opposition to any other political party or political thought except my own."†
Chpt 4.8
What is now important is the courage he displayed in support of his convictions.†
Chpt 4.8
Any man even though he be the strictest kind of Republican, who does not believe the things I stand for are right, should follow his convictions and vote against me.†
Chpt 4.8
Other Senators, placing their convictions ahead of their careers, have broken with their party in much the same way as John Quincy Adams, Thomas Hart Benton, Edmund Ross, Sam Houston and George Norris.†
Chpt 4.10
He could not even be re-elected to the Senate, as Frank Kent has written:for no other reason than the sincerity and honesty of his political utterances......The opposition to him in Alabama, because of the strength and the openness of his convictions, had grown to a point where his renomination was plainly not possible without the kind of fight he felt unwilling to make......Had Senator Underwood played the game in Alabama in accord with the sound political rule of seeming to say something without doing so, there would have been no real opposition to his remaining in the Senate for the balance of his life.†
Chpt 4.10
It is not intended to justify independence for the sake ofindependence, obstinacy to all compromise or excessively proud and stubborn adherence to one's own personal convictions.†
Chpt 4.11
He was demonstrating conviction, courage, a desire to help others who needed help, and true and genuine love for his country.†
Chpt Frwd.
It was his conviction, like Plato's, that the definition of citizenship in a democracy is participation in Government and that, as Francis Bacon wrote, it is "left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on.†
Chpt Frwd.
It was his conviction that a democracy with this effort by its people must and can face its problems, that it must show patience, restraint, compassion, as well as wisdom and strength and courage, in the struggle for solutions which are very rarely easy to find.†
Chpt Frwd.
It was his conviction that we should do so successfully because the courage of those who went before us in this land exists in the present generation of Americans.†
Chpt Frwd.
Moreover, in these days of Civil Service, the loaves and fishes of patronage available to the legislator—for distribution to those earnest campaigners whose efforts were inspired by something more than mere conviction—are comparatively few; and he who breaks the party's ranks may find that there are suddenly none at all.†
Chpt 0.1
But there is one sort of inconsistency that is culpable: it is the inconsistency between a man's conviction and his vote, between his conscience and his conduct.†
Chpt 2.3
And more important, such amajority was Constitutionally required to accomplish their major ambition, now an ill-kept secret, conviction of the President under an impeachment and his dismissal from office!†
Chpt 3.6
The temporary and unstable two-thirds majority which had enabled the Senate Radical Republicans on several occasions to enact legislation over the President's veto was, they knew, insufficiently reliable for an impeachment conviction.†
Chpt 3.6
With the President impeached—in effect, indicted—by the House, the frenzied trial for his conviction or acquittal under the Articles of Impeachment began on March 5 in the Senate, presided over by the Chief Justice.†
Chpt 3.6
and the eleventh was a deliberately obscure conglomeration of all the charges in the preceding articles, which had been designed by Thaddeus Stevens to furnish a common ground for those who favored conviction but Wereunwilling to identify themselves on basic issues.†
Chpt 3.6
The chief interest was not in the trial or the evidence, but in the tallying of votes necessary for conviction.†
Chpt 3.6
Twenty-seven states (excluding the unrecognized Southern states) in the Union meant fifty-four members of the Senate, and thirty-six votes were required to constitute the two-thirds majority necessary for conviction.†
Chpt 3.6
The night before the Senate was to take itsfirst vote for the conviction or acquittal of Johnson, Ross received this telegram from home: Kansas has heard the evidence and demands the conviction of the President.†
Chpt 3.6
The night before the Senate was to take itsfirst vote for the conviction or acquittal of Johnson, Ross received this telegram from home: Kansas has heard the evidence and demands the conviction of the President.†
Chpt 3.6
And on that fateful morning of May 16 Ross replied: To D. R. Anthony and 1,000 Others: I do not recognize your right to demand that I vote either for or against conviction.†
Chpt 3.6
The deed was done, the President saved, the trial as good as over and the conviction lost.†
Chpt 3.6
The remainder of the roll call was unimportant; conviction had failed by the margin of a single vote and a general rumbling filled the chamber until the Chief Justice proclaimed that "on this Article thirty-five Senators having voted guilty and nineteen not guilty, a two-thirds majority not having voted for conviction, the President is, therefore, acquitted under this Article."†
Chpt 3.6
The remainder of the roll call was unimportant; conviction had failed by the margin of a single vote and a general rumbling filled the chamber until the Chief Justice proclaimed that "on this Article thirty-five Senators having voted guilty and nineteen not guilty, a two-thirds majority not having voted for conviction, the President is, therefore, acquitted under this Article."†
Chpt 3.6
An attempt was made to rush through bills to readmit six Southern states, whose twelve Senators were guaranteed to vote for conviction.†
Chpt 3.6
But all seven of the Republicans who voted against conviction should be remembered for their courage.†
Chpt 3.6
I have received several letters from friends warning me that my political grave is dug if I do not vote for conviction, and several threatening assassination.†
Chpt 3.6
He meekly offered to wire his resignation to the Governor, enabling a new appointee to vote for conviction; and, when it was doubted whether a new Senator would be permitted to vote, he agreed to ascertain whether his own vote would be crucial.†
Chpt 3.6
But, in the eyes of the Philadelphia Press, his "statesmanship drivelled into selfishness," for, resisting tremendous pressure, he voted against conviction.†
Chpt 3.6
On the contrary, his speeches were a learned explanation of his position, setting forth the Constitutional history of the Senate and its relationship to the state legislatures, and the statements and examples of Burke, and of Calhoun, Webster, and other famous Senators who had disagreed with Legislative instructions: "Better to follow the example of the illustrious men whose names have been given than to abandon altogether judgment and conviction in deference to popular clamor."†
Chpt 3.7
At no time did he, who has properly been termed the most gifted statesman given by the South to the nation from the close of the Civil War to the turn of the century, ever veer from the deep conviction he had expressed while under bitter attack in 1878: The liberty of this country and its great interests will never be secure if its public men become mere menials to do the biddings of their constituents instead of being representatives in the true sense of the word, looking to the lasting prosperity and future interests of the whole country.†
Chpt 3.7
These are the words of an idealist, an independent, a fighter—a man of deep conviction, fearless courage, sincere honesty—George W. Norris of Nebraska.†
Chpt 4.8

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(1) (conviction as in: spoke with conviction)
a strong, firmly held belief
(2) (conviction as in: owed a fine after the conviction)
a court's finding that someone is guilty

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