“I do not question the sincerity or the good intentions of those who feel that way.”

— Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

10 January 1940, Speech at Orient Club, Bombay, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 229.

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“i do not question your sincerity—if anything, i object to your questioning the sincerity of other religions.
i am not questioning their sincerity. i am questioning their validity.”

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Section 15 (p. 72; Dr. Auberson, then HARLIE)
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“At the same time, I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left wing associations.”

Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservative political commentator

"Ministers and Marches" sermon (1965), Lynchburg, Virginia, quoted in [2008-08-19, Blue Dixie: Awakening the South's Democratic Majority, Bob Moser, New York, Henry Holt, 9780805087710, 16839743M, 173, http://books.google.com/books?id=l8R570Dq60YC&pg=PA173]
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“Men who give way easily to tears are good. I have nothing to do with those who hearts are dry and who eyes are dry!”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Elective Affinities

Tränenreiche Männer sind gut. Verlasse mich jeder, der trocknen Herzens, trockner Augen ist!
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