Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner (May 10, 1847); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), Vol. II, p. 394
“As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.”
Hosea Ballou (1771–1852) American Universalist minister (1771–1852)
Manuscript, Sermons; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 828.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) Romanian politician
For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Politics
“To disrespect the masses is moral; to honor them, lawful.”
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) German poet, critic and scholar
Die Menge nicht zu achten, ist sittlich; sie zu ehren, ist rechtlich.
Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), “Athenaeum Fragments” § 211
“When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[? ]”
Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer
Source: Heir to the Shadows
“Honor in safety, survival under threat. Necessity is the only law.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Stone Sky
Source: The Stone Sky (2017), Chapter 9 “the desert, briefly, and you” (p. 231)
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (1968) American photographer
Biographical profile
Official site
Context: There can never be too many of us doing this type of work … The work that we do is necessary beyond accolades or honors. In fact, to do it for accolades or honors alone is criminal. I am my brother’s keeper, may I always behave as such!
“No person was ever honored for what he recieved. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
Robert M. Edsel (1956) American art historian
Source: The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
