"Your inner knowing is your only true compass"

"Conscience is a man's compass"

"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also"

"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast"

"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great"

"Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction"

"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass"

"I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers"

"So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone"

"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy"

"It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges"