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"I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience."
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"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
"I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience."
"Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind."
"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."
"The question stayed with me every day, through every class, through every Op. I felt its teeth tighten around the back of my neck each time I was dismissed without a second look; it had locked it's jaws and wouldn't let me or my conscience go."
"A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again."
"Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on."
"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
"Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right."
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"Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them."
"I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service."
"My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government."
"In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural."
"A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward."
"Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership."
"Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey."
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