Yesterday, December 7, 1941Ma date that will live in infamy--the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked b...y naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must bear in mind the distinction between fame and honor. A virtuous person is an honorable person, a person who ought to be ho...nored by the community in which he or she lives. But the virtuous person does not seek honor, being secure in his or her own self-respect. Lack of honor does not in any way detract from the efficacy of moral virtue as an indispensable operative means in the pursuit of happiness.... Those totally lacking in virtue may achieve fame as readily as, perhaps even more easily than those who are virtuous. Fame belongs to the great, the outstanding, the exceptional, without regard to virtue or vice. Infamy is fame no less than good repute. The great scoundrel can be as famous as the great hero; there can be famous villains as well as famous saints. Existing in the reputation a person has regardless of his or her accomplishments, fame does not tarnish as honor does when it is unmerited.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this instrument of perfidy; and t...he name of this nation, hitherto the sweet omen of religion and liberty, will stink to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All places were now become irksome to her. She found it impossible to fly from infamy, unless she could at the same time fly from ...herself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if thos...e are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be superadded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages among some [people] and to their eternal Infamy the clergy can furni...sh their Quota of Imps for such business.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhance the true dignity of a p...rosperous American, do but minister to the added wretchedness of the unfortunate; first, by prohibiting their acceptance of what little random relief charity may offer; and, second, by furnishing them with the keenest appreciation of the smarting distinction between their ideal of universal equality and their grind-stone experience of the practical misery and infamy of poverty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy... which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »