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Conscience Quotes by James Madison
- The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man…
- The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the…
- Conscience is the most sacred of all property.
- Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienable…
- As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more…
- Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is held by the…
- Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding…
More Conscience Quotes
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early. — Octavia Butler
- Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an… — Frances Perkins
- The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. — B. C. Forbes
- The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental… — Charles Darwin
- The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell… — Arthur Koestler
- It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the… — Benjamin Spock