"An inglorious peace is better than a..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.”

“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”

“Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.”

“There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.”

“If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.”

“So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it.”

“Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.”

“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.”

“There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.”