Action Quote by Samuel Johnson

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own…

— William Hazlitt

“If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a…

— Thomas Paine

“Virtue simply involves regulating your actions, words, and thoughts to create benefits rather than harms for yourself and others.”

— Rick Hanson

He who governs himself according to what he calls his principles may be punished either by one party or the other for those very…

— J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

— Henry David Thoreau

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“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

“.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules of experience…

— Sigmund Freud

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a…

— Thomas Paine

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

— Plato

“He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville