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“I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.”

People May Government Desire Hours Liberty Rights Protect Conscience England Preserves

Book:Letters and Speeches

Source: Letters and Speeches

“The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.”

“The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.”

Mind Film Form Conscience Ideals Tests England Cinema

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.”

Feels Real Done Play Law My Own Careers Crime Conscience Discovery England Harm Criminals Tricks I Have Learned Caution

Book:The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Return of Sherlock Holmes

“The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.”

Inspirational Enjoy Conscience England New England

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.”

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Author:Upton Sinclair

“Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.”

World Looks Remember Conscience England Theatre Realms

Author:Mary, Queen of Scots

“The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.”

Knows Shapes Conscience England Edges Doctrine Rough Scotland Thunder Augustine Rough Edges

Book:Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.”

War Passion Conscience England Insane Awful New England

Book:The Political Writings of Rufus Choate

Source: The Political Writings of Rufus Choate