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The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.
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No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,…
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The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
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[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was…
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I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.
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That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of…
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The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide…
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Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation or community; whenever any government…
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Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled…
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As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless…
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Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the…
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I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very…
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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
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In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is…
— Richard Sibbes
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Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.
— Robert H. Jackson
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There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within…
— Lorenzo Snow
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It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion…
— Charles Grandison Finney
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It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a…
— George Mason
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The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.
— Thomas a Kempis
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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
— Mo Yan
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When people were conscious of a God whose character was moral law, when their consciences were informed by a sense of rightness,…
— James W. Sire
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People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
— Barbara Deming
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