Sentence examples for conscience speech from inspiring English sources

Had a man delivered Smith's Declaration of Conscience speech, he was purported to have said, "he would be the next President of the United States".

It is easy to see how the right to vote or to freedoms of conscience, speech and association might be essential to ensuring the possibility of today's minority influencing tomorrow's majority.

Margaret Chase Smith, a senator from Maine, the grand old dame of the Republican party, wore a rose every day, including on the first of June in 1950 when she gave the brave, brilliant "Declaration of Conscience" speech she is best know for, denouncing her fellow Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy.

In between, Stanford students and staff members read stirring passages from the letters and speeches of past U.S. presidents, from a sermon by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and from the 1950 "Declaration of Conscience" speech by U.S. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, one of the most noted early challengers to U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

The field manual goes on to define a "legitimate civil authority" as one that: "Respects freedom of religion, conscience, speech, assembly, association and press... Protects the institutions of civil society, including the family, religious communities, voluntary associations, private property, independent businesses and a market economy".

American democracy is very good at the "thought, conscience and speech" stuff, thank God.

What if Cruz never came around to endorsing Trump after his "vote your conscience" convention speech?

And those other democracies seem to be doing all right on the "thought, conscience and speech" front, too.

But DDR says nothing about the civil freedoms I prize: the freedoms of thought, conscience, and speech.

With that caveat, I'm not sure that preservation of "thought, conscience and speech" is the primary good of democracy.

They include the right to life, liberty and security of person; the right to a fair trial; protection from torture and ill treatment; freedom of thought, conscience, religion, speech and assembly; the right to marry; the right to free elections; the right to fair access to the country's education system; and, to top things off, the right not to be discriminated against.