Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort. – Bert Murray
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. – Will Rogers
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., speech, Boston, 8 January 1897
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. – Chester W. Nimitz
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. – Henry Louis Mencken, “Sententiae,” This and That: A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1948
The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. – Japanese Proverb
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. – Samuel Richardson
There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
I would rather be right than President. – Henry Clay, speech, 1850
If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral. – Samuel P. Ginder
I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man. – Thomas Jefferson, 1809
Goodness is beauty in the best estate. – Christopher Marlowe
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws. – Johann Sigurjonsson
Righteousness is easy in retrospect. – Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. – Thomas Hardy
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. – Elbert Hubbard, A Thousand and One Epigrams, 1911
