Conscience Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 the harmony between the will and the law.

— Lord Acton

“There is a twofold liberty, natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt) and civil or federal. The first is common to man…

— Alexis De Tocqueville

Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief…

— Jonathan Swift

Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

— John Major

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

— John Milton

Liberty is the sovereignty of the individual.

— Josiah Warren

Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.

— Henry Campbell Black

“Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting…

— William Graham Sumner

“Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline.”

— Alistair Cooke 'America

Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are…

— Thomas Paine