Louis Simpson (1923–2012) Jamaican poet
On the Lawn at the Villa (l. 14-16) (1980) It is not your job to like me, it is mine.
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“The American conscience died with the Kennedys.”
Source: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
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Robert P. George (1955) American legal scholar
Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/967529815317274624 (24 February 2018) <br class="br">2018
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer
Letter to three students (October 1967) as translated in Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record (1970) edited by Leopold Labedz (1970) “The Struggle Intensifies".
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, Special message to Congress on the right to vote (1965)
“No conscience which is a palimpsest of the consciences of others is a safe guide.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 29
“A clear conscience doesn’t mean anything if you haven’t any conscience.”
William Feather (1889–1981) Publisher, Author
Featherisms (2008)
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 389.
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
1970s, Remarks on pardoning Nixon (1974)
Context: I have come to a decision which I felt I should tell you and all of my fellow American citizens, as soon as I was certain in my own mind and in my own conscience that it is the right thing to do.
I have learned already in this office that the difficult decisions always come to this desk. I must admit that many of them do not look at all the same as the hypothetical questions that I have answered freely and perhaps too fast on previous occasions.
My customary policy is to try and get all the facts and to consider the opinions of my countrymen and to take counsel with my most valued friends. But these seldom agree, and in the end, the decision is mine. To procrastinate, to agonize, and to wait for a more favorable turn of events that may never come or more compelling external pressures that may as well be wrong as right, is itself a decision of sorts and a weak and potentially dangerous course for a President to follow.
I have promised to uphold the Constitution, to do what is right as God gives me to see the right, and to do the very best that I can for America.
“The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.”
Clive Staples Lewis book Mere Christianity
Book IV, Chapter 8, "Is Christianity Hard or Easy?"
Mere Christianity (1952)
