Conscience Quote by Robert Barclay

The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the…

— Greg L. Bahnsen

The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the…

— Anonymous

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by…

— James Madison

The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience; and as…

— David Hume

We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety, ... We have…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions…

— John Paul Davis

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

— Andy Garcia

As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has…

— John Locke

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

Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him when he…

— Pope Pius XI

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a…

— Joseph Addison