I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
A satellite has no conscience.
The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.