What is left when honor is lost?

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristics in men.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

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

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.