Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

There’s nothing more important than people’s conscience and there’s nothing that needs more protection.

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

Conscience is the highest of all Courts.

Any policy is bound to fail which deliberately violates our pledges and our principles, our treaties and our laws …. The American conscience is a reality. It will make us hesitant and ineffectual, even if it does not prevent an un-American policy.

[A] well-formed Christian conscience does not permit one to vote for a political program or an individual law which contradicts the fundamental contents of faith and morals.

The moral element … ministers, professors, and respectable persons … do not believe politics should be pursued as a trade.

Moral liberty is the power of following, in all circumstances, our sense of right and wrong, or of acting in conformity to our reflecting and moral principles, without being controlled by any contrary principles.

I will not compromise with my conscience. I will cast my vote to protect the liberties of our people.

I would not allow CIA to undertake activity that is immoral, even if it is technically legal.

My moral compass is strong.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.