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"He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so."
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"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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..."
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"I carried out my plan because I felt The Chief had some fear of those of my race, of those uncountable forebears whose culmination lies in me. I wished to prove to him that a yellow man could save his armies."
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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."
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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."
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"Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man."
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"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."
Truth
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
Man
"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."
Nature
"Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach."
Education
"The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples."
Adventure
"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party."
Party
"Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience."
Change
"The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business."
Business
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."
Man
"Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed."
Time
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