honor Quotes

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.