It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say 'no' to other people with a clear conscience.
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.