“True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?”

“We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.”

“Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.”

“The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.”

“It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.”

“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. ”