The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a mans course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle

Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Conscience Quotes

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect...

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect...

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's...

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's...

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element...

We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably a element...

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we...

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we...

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he...

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he...

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the...

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the...

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each...

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each...

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me...

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me...

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what...

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what...

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to...

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to...

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some...

You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some...

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly...

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly...

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms,...

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms,...

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms,...

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms,...

Wars based on principle are far more destructive...the attacker will not destroy that which he...

Wars based on principle are far more destructive...the attacker will not destroy that which he...