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Conscience Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary…
- God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly…
- The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion…
- MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes…
- Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should…
- Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good…
- It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may,…
- Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.
- The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger…
- All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Conscience is the only clue that will eternally guide a man clear of all doubts and inconsistencies.
- The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in…
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
- 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
- I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough