It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
~ Thomas Jefferson
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
~ Henry James
Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.
~ John Oldham
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
~ Will Rogers
Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
~ Robert Casey
My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.
~ Justin Trudeau
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
~ Michel Foucault
All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
~ Os Guinness
