Honorable Quotes - Page 5

• All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.

  Alma Kruger

  Mistake, Decision, Made

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• Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?

  Jeff Gannon

  War, Years, America

  Jeff Gannon (2007). “The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report”, Iuniverse Inc

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• Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Teacher, Lying

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• In these sacred documents are embodied eternal principles that no man, group of men, or nation has the right to withhold from others. Here is our basis for freedom of individual achievement. Our Constitution with its Bill of Rights guarantees to all our people the greatest freedom ever enjoyed by the people of any great nation. This system guarantees freedom of individual enterprise, freedom to own property, freedom to start one's own business and to operate it according to one's own judgment so long as the enterprise is honorable.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Rights, Long

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• Justice - there is an air of nobility about the word. It calls to mind other words like equity, fairness, and truth. It speaks of honor and exactness. It speaks of righteousness. But, sadly, in today's world its application is often anything but noble, honorable, or righteous.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Truth, Air, Justice

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• But I felt like Pablo Escobar felt like he was an honorable businessman. And when he killed people, I think he felt he did it because they were honorable. That they were liars and were trying to cheat him. I don't think he had a lot of respect for the politicians in Columbia at the time, so he had quite a lot of fun killing them.

  Cliff Curtis

  Fun, Business, Liars

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• We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.

  Peter Pace

  Loyalty, Fighting, Leader

  "U.S. strikes in central Baghdad", www.cnn.com. April 7, 2003.

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• Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now.

  James I. Robertson, Jr.

  Self, Southern, Inspire

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• Where the principle of difference [between political parties] is as substantial and as strongly pronounced as between the republicans and the monocrats of our country, I hold it as honorable to take a firm and decided part and as immoral to pursue a middle line, as between the parties of honest men and rogues, into which every country is divided.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Party, Men

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• I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

  Bel Kaufman

  Senior, Prom, Ripe

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• Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Mother, Men, Two

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• It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

  Edward Everett

  Law, Battle, Citizens

  Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”

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• I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Earth, Way

  Mark Twain (2015). “Complete Letters of Mark Twain”, p.689, Litres

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• Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Faith, Victory, Looks

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne (1910*). “"Virginibus puerisque" and other papers. Memories and portraits. Familiar studies of men and books”

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• Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.

  Publilius Syrus

  Life Is Short, Men, Immortality

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• To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?

  Aleister Crowley

  Book, Autumn, Men

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• It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. They were really very honorable guys, like Neal Bogart and Bill Graham, people who will never be around again.

  Peter Criss

  Running, Young Generation, People

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• Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard.

  Russ Feingold

  Jobs, Integrity, Hard Work

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• There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?

  Judd Apatow

  Baby, Thinking, People

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• You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

  James Carville

  Pieces, Hills, Democrat

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• The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.

  Walker Percy

  Crazy, Men, Order

  Walker Percy (1989). “Lancelot”

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• As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wrinkles, Long, Age

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.79, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.

  Delano Johnson

  Good Woman, Honor, Virtuous

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• I believe I am an honorable man.

  Joseph J. Ellis

  Believe, Men, Honorable Man

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• When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

  Max Lerner

  Believe, Evil, Literature

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