Honours and Awards
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.
- Order of the Oak Crown
- Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria (1955)
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1958)
- Charlemagne Prize (26 May 1960) - "in recognition of his life's work and his high merits for the unification of Europe that began in the old League of Nations and in the European institutions took their purposeful continuation."
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“Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.”
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