Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [341-360] of 368 Conscience quotesConscience QuotesConscience Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.~ Mark Twain My kind of loyalty was to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.~ Mark Twain Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -- the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.~ Mark Twain 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.~ Mark Twain Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.~ Unknown The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.~ John Updike Just as there is a very short distance between the U.S. and Cuba, there is a very short distance between a democracy and a dictatorship where the government gets to decide what to do, how to think, and how to live. And sometimes your freedom is not taken away at gunpoint, but instead it is done one piece of paper at a time, one seemingly meaningless rule at a time, one small silencing at a time. Never allow the government – or anyone else – to tell you what you can or cannot believe or what you can and cannot say or what your conscience tells you to have to do or not do.~ Armando Valladares The soul of our country needs to be awakened... When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.~ Veterans Fast for Life That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other. ~ Virginia Declaration of Rights The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.~ Voltaire Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others to persecute those who do reason.~ Voltaire Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.~ Voltaire We are what we pretend to be.~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The government can’t force Americans to say things they don’t believe, and Colorado officials have paid and will continue to pay a high price when they violate this foundational freedom. For the past 12 years, Colorado has targeted people of faith and forced them to express messages that violate their conscience and that advance the government’s preferred ideology. First Amendment protections are non-negotiable. Billions of people around the world believe that marriage is the union of one man and one woman and that men and women are biologically distinct. No government has the right to silence individuals for expressing these ideas or to punish those who decline to express different views. Political and cultural winds shift, but the freedom to speak without fear of censorship is a God-given constitutionally guaranteed right, essential for a flourishing society and self-governing people.~ Kristen Waggoner Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.~ Earl Warren If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.~ George Washington It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.~ George Washington Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.~ J. C. Watts, Jr. Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right.~ Josiah C. Wedgwood Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.~ Oscar Wilde Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print