Decorations
- Balkenende was appointed a Member of the Order of Orange-Nassau on 30 March 1998, and elevated to Knight Grand Cross of the same Order on 23 November 2010.
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“Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtues are economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)