Gerald R. Ford Quotes

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

I grew up feeling from a very young age that what was right was right, no matter if God or my teacher said so.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey …. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind.

I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.

There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.'

I have only ever followed my conscience.

It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.

I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.

You don't just go with a majority because it's the majority. You go with it because it's right. If it feels right, do it. As long as it's legal.

One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to the constraints of the law.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Go by your own conscience.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own..

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking.