#conscience

If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#anything #been #conscience #country #direction

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 of them. ↗

— Mark Twain

#country #either #freedom #freedom of speech #god

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

#conscience #course #death #enjoy #enjoy life

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience. ↗

— Caspar Weinberger

#conscience #here #nation #our #rests

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#guilty #guilty conscience #invention #mother

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#am #bad #because #conscience #duty

Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back. ↗

— Martha Stout

#anger

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme. ↗

— Robert McNamara

#could #global #itself #neither #nor

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation. ↗

— Franz von Papen

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Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#conscience #dance #disco #go #just