honors quotes

I don’t believe in honors – it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.