Arbitrary Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Right is not only to act within the law. It's to also act according to the conscience.

— Howard Zinn

Even when there is no law, there is conscience.

— Publilius Syrus

“Laws are made for one purpose only (...) to hold us in check when our desires grow immoderate. As long as our desires are…

— J.M. Coetzee

Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave…

— John Goodwin

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them…

— Edmund Spenser

“Aren’t all laws simply man’s attempt to codify moral concepts? Is not “legislation” simply our combined agreement as to what is “right” and “wrong”?…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and…

— Aristotle

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them?

— Henry David Thoreau

Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and…

— James Madison

“Once it's no longer accepted that something is wrong, all the laws in the world will avail you naught. The law functions as a…

— Mark Steyn

Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

— Amity Shlaes

We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad…

— Alexander Bickel