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

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty.

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.

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