"I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account."

Honor, Injury, Opinion, Question, Self

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"I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account."

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"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death?Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor..."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had the power to heal men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted."

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"Let us acknowledge the magnitude of Motherhood, by simply honoring all mothers- past & present."

Eleesha, British Author

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"Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy."

Wayne Gerard Trotman, British Author

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"I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account."

Honor, Injury, Opinion, Question, Self

"They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them."

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"Whatever insults my State insults me."

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"But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers."

History, Time, Country, Future

"But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here."

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"If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power."

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