“Ah, dearer than my soul…
Dearer than light, or life, or fame.”
John Oldham (poet) (1653–1683) English satirical poet and translator
Lament for Saul and Jonathan; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
“My honor is dearer to me than my life.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 1.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Speech in Cleveland http://books.google.com/books?id=o3j10P6YFZIC&pg=PA1090&dq=%22nation's+honor+is+dearer+than+the+nation's+comfort%22 (January 1916) <br class="br">1910s
“Dreyfus is innocent. I swear it! I stake my life on it — my honor!”
Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)
Appeal for Dreyfus delivered at his trial for libel (22 February 1898).
Context: Dreyfus is innocent. I swear it! I stake my life on it — my honor! At this solemn moment, in the presence of this tribunal which is the representative of human justice, before you, gentlemen of the jury, who are the very incarnation of the country, before the whole of France, before the whole world, I swear that Dreyfus is innocent. By my forty years of work, by the authority that this toil may have given me, I swear that Dreyfus is innocent. By all I have now, by the name I have made for myself, by my works which have helped for the expansion of French literature, I swear that Dreyfus is innocent. May all that melt away, may my works perish if Dreyfus be not innocent! He is innocent. All seems against me — the two Chambers, the civil authority, the military authority, the most widely-circulated journals, the public opinion which they have poisoned. And I have for me only an ideal of truth and justice. But I am quite calm; I shall conquer. I was determined that my country should not remain the victim of lies and injustice. I may be condemned here. The day will come when France will thank me for having helped to save her honor.
“It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess
Source: Clockwork Princess
Merrick Garland (1952) American judge
[Remarks by the President Announcing Judge Merrick Garland as his Nominee to the Supreme Court, Merrick, Garland, w:Merrick Garland, The White House, March 16, 2016, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Remarks_by_the_President_Announcing_Judge_Merrick_Garland_as_his_Nominee_to_the_Supreme_Court#Remarks_by_Judge_Garland]; quote then excerpted in:
[March 18, 2016, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/key-quotes-obamas-nomination-merrick-garland-37695552, ABC News, Quotes on Obama's Nomination of Merrick Garland, Associated Press, March 16, 2016]
Remarks by Judge Garland upon nomination to Supreme Court of the United States (2016)
Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945) Nazi officer, Commander of the SS
Himmler formulated this as the watchword of the Schultzstaffel, an organization that eventually became an enormous organization ranging from the staff of the concentration camps to the Gestapo and SD, to the Waffen-SS, Hitler's personal soldiers. Above all else, Himmler and the rest of the Nazi leadership stressed the importance of loyalty to the Reich and the Fuehrer. As translated in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), by Hannah Arendt Ch. 10
Undated
“Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.”
Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer
Source: Remalna's Children (Crown & Court 2.5, 2011)
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
2021, February 2021, Remarks by President Biden to Department of Defense Personnel, February 10, 2021