Conscience Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“Man has the right to act in conscience and in freedom so as personally to make moral decisions.  "He must not be forced to…

— Aaron Milavec

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man…

— John Tyler

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of…

— James Madison

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

— John Locke

“But if, in despotic statecraft, the supreme and essential mystery be to hoodwink the subjects, and to mask the fear, which keeps them down,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my…

— Martin Luther

The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility,…

— Ayn Rand

“But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified,…

— John Locke

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“As Chafer said, long ago, “If men go to perdition it will be because every possible mercy from God has been resisted.”3 I cannot…

— Patrick Davis