Conscience Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

— Tacitus

“Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete,…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

We need the tonic of wildness and...nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

— George W. Bush

Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.

— Norm MacDonald

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

— James Buchanan

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety…

— John Acton

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

— Tacitus

“Liberty is like those solid and tasty foods or those full-bodied wines which are appropriate for nourishing and strengthening robust constitutions that are used…

— Rousseau Jean-Jacques

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

— Aldo Leopold

“Look out! Oh, you chump and weak fool, you are one of a humanity that can't be numbered and not more than the dust…

— Saul Bellow