Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
Go by your own conscience.
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.
Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.
If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.
In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.
Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.
Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people.
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
