We must keep our dignity before others. Unless we do that, we expose ourselves to insult.

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

A man will perhaps tolerate an offensive word applied to himself, but will be infuriated if his nation, his rank, or his profession is insulted.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Honours should go where death and danger go.

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