The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.

Our flag for a century and a half has been the symbol of the principles of liberty of conscience, of religious freedom and of equality before the law; and these concepts are deeply ingrained in our national character.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.

It was an army whose allegiance was to God and whose strategy and intelligence were eloquently simple dictates of conscience.

The conscience of America revolts against war and that any Nation which provokes war forfeits the sympathy of the people of the United States.

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.