Quotes from "Honorable " people

me ^ | 1/21/02 | Airborne

[airborne]

My sons Boy Scout troop is participating in the annual "Mall Show Week". Hundreds of young men set up booths in the local mall to promote Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts. The theme for this year is "ON MY HONOR".As part of their display, they are looking for quotes from "honorable men". I would appreciate any input from my fellow FReepers and think you folks could come up with all the Troop will need.

[airborne]

Thanks from BSA Troop 431, Ft. Indiantown Gap, PA.

[Lexington Green]

“I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an 'Honest Man'.” — George Washington

[Doctor Doom]

"I didn't do nothing." -Brutus

(Okay, is somewhat arcane, but Shakespeare fans will get it.)

[petuniasevan]

"I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be." Abraham Lincoln

[harpseal]

My Coumtry Right or Wrong my Country" - Stephen Decatur

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[petuniasevan]

Dignity does not consist of possessing honors, but in deserving them. - Aristotle

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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. - Thomas Sowell

[Maceman]

"To die with one's sword still in its sheath is most regrettable." -- Miyamoto Musashi

[RedBloodedAmerican]

A moose once bit my sister - author unknown

[petuniasevan]

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. -- Calvin Coolidge

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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. -- Nicholas Boileau

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[pgkdan]

Here's the anti-honorable quote.

Well, that all depends on what the meaning of "is" is. William Jefferson Blythe Clinton

[Congressman Billybob]

Anything for the Boy Scouts, a honorable institution.

"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country." Nathan Hale, before he was hung by the British as a "spy" for the Americans in New Haven, during the Revolutionary War.

Submitted by John Armor, Eagle Scout #11, Troup 35, Baltimore, Maryland; also Junior Assistant Scoutmaster. Order of the Arrow, etc.

Congressman Billybob

Click & bookmark for Phil & Billybob in the mornings.

[Congressman Billybob]

The author of your "moose bit my sister" quote is Monty Python. It appears in the opening credits of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

Cheers,

yer Congresscritter, Billybob

[petuniasevan]

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. – Aristotle

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. – Sophocles

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A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken. – Pietro Aretino

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Hold it the greatest wrong to prefer life to honor and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living. – Juvenal

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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient,
unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. – Walter Lippmann

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When faith is lost, when honor dies,
The man is dead. – John Greenleaf Whittier

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Honor begets honor, trust begets trust, faith begets faith, and hope is the mainspring of life. – Henry L. Stimson

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Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never....
In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense! – Winston Churchill

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[ArrogantBustard]

Robert E. Lee, writing to his son G. W. Custis Lee:

In regard to duty, let me inform you that nearly a hundred years ago there was a day of remarkable gloom and darkness still known as "the Dark Day" when the light of the sun was estinguished by an eclipse. The legislature of Connecticut was in session, and its members saw the unexpected and unaccountable darkness coming on, shared the awe and terror. Some thought it was the Last Day, the Day of Judgment. Someone in consternation moved an adjournment.

Then rose an old Puritan legislator, Devanport of Stanford, and said that if the Last Day had come, he desired to be found at his place, doing his duty, and, therefore, moved that candles be brought in so that the House could proceed with its duty.

There was quietness in that man's mind, the quietness of heavenly wisdom, an inflexible willingness to obey present duty.

Duty then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. Never let me and your mother wear one gray hair for any lack of duty on your part.

Your affectionate father, R. E. Lee.

[cschroe]

"Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character."

-- Vince Lombardi

[petuniasevan]

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)

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Honor is a decision we make to place high value, worth, and importance on another person by viewing him or her as a priceless gift and granting that person a position in our lives worthy of great respect. - Gary Smalley & John Trent

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[cschroe]

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

--- Theodore Roosevelt

[LaBradford22]

"The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery."

-Winston Churchill

[petuniasevan]

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. -- Joseph Addison

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"I would lay down my life for America, but I cannot trifle with my honor."-- John Paul Jones

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[Senator Pardek]

"I did not #### honor." - William Jefferson Clinton

[wwjdn]

T. Roosevelt:

"A hypheneated American is no American at all"
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

[TADSLOS]

"Therefore give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast…and one day you will build something that endures; something worthy of your potential."

Epictetus

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"We here highly resolve that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

-Abraham Linclon

[American Preservative]

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown by harpseal

Sounds good and honorable to me. : )

Found here #3

(Thanks, harpseal. : ) )

[Thane_Banquo]

From Young America's Foundation

"Government must not supersede the will of the people or the responsibilities of the people. The function of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
Ronald Reagan, The Creative Society, 1968

"The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become."
Ronald Reagan, The Creative Society, 1968

"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
Ronald Reagan, Speech at the Brandenburg Gate, 1987 From UselessKnowledge.com

"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."
Ronald Reagan

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
Ronald Reagan

FromReaganRanch.com

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
Ronald Reagan, Annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, March 30, 1961

"The government's view of the economy can be summed up in a few short phrases. It if moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
Ronald Reagan, Remarks to National White House Conference on Small Business, August 15, 1986

"Government is like a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and a no sense of responsibility at the other."
Ronald Reagan, Remarks before Joint Session of the Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, March 11, 1981

From Ronald Reagan

"History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."
Ronald Reagan

"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."
Ronald Reagan

Of course, there are plenty more where those came from, equally insightful and equally witty.

[TADSLOS]

"If you expect a nation to be ignorant and free, you expect what never was and never will be"

Thomas Jefferson

[PatriotGames]

"Mr Gorbachev, tear this wall down." - Ronald Reagan

[harpseal]

I thank you for your kind words but I could never place myself in company with the greats mentioned in most of these responses.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[wwjdn]

"A hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts 'Native' before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance." (T Rooselvelt) (full quote)

[markn]

Ronald Reagan - "Recession is what you get when your neighbour looses his job. Depression is when you loose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter looses his."

[Texaggie79]

"This was the wrong day to quick sniffing glue." --- Llyod Bridges (airplane)

[stylin19a]

How about Davey Crockett:

One day in the House of Representatives, a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Davey Crockett arose:

"Mr. Speaker, I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him.

"Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and, if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."

Crockett took his seat. Nobody replied. The bill was put upon its passage, and, instead of passing unanimously, as was generally supposed, and as, no doubt, it would, but for that speech, it received but few votes, and of course, was lost.

The previous excerpt, reprinted from an 1884 book entitled The Life of Colonel David Crockett, by Edward S. Ellis,

[Texaggie79]

No wait, I think it was

"I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue"

[stlrocket]

Try some of these - I found them on a really cool website.

INTERESTING QUOTES

[petuniasevan]

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.
Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation
the values that are the foundation for our freedoms.
In the family we learn our first lessons of God and man, love and discipline,
rights and responsibilities, human dignity and human frailty. -- Ronald Reagan

[SunnyUsa]

"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
---Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution, 1776.

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
---Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.

"In every generation, the world has produced enemies of human freedom. They have attacked America, because we are freedom's home and defender. And the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time. "
September 14, 2001
President George W Bush's Remarks at National Day of Prayer and Remembrance
The National Cathedral Washington, D.C.

"We have seen their kind before. They're the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way to where it ends in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies."
President George W. Bush's address to a joint session of Congress on the evening of September 20, 2001

"We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!"
Winston Churchill
Speech about Dunkirk given in House of Commons June 4, 1940.

[Lexington Green]

A good man should not obey the law too well. Ralph Waldo Emerson

[jla]

Quotes

[GOPyouth]

"This was the wrong day to quick sniffing glue." --- Llyod Bridges (airplane

Heh heh... "Surely you can't be serious....."

[Caipirabob]

"That was your daughter?"

~ Bill Clinton

"It all depends on what the meaning of is, is..."

~ Bill Clinton

"I did not have sex with that woman"

~ Bill Clinton

EEEEP! You said "Honorable" didn't you? Well, by comparison, now everyone else is honorable.

[bvw]

There is a Jewish (Ladino) proverb : "Honor is more appropriate for those who share it than for those who hoard it." From the FAMILY SHABBAT TABLE TALK of the UAHC.

[ChadGore]

"I drank what?" -- socrates

[New Horizon]

"Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead." - James Thurber

[ThJ1800]

Here is a site with many good quotes - Quoteland.com

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

This should be a great thread, airborne.

Quotes from the Founding Fathers
President Bush's Moral Clarity
American Center for Law and Justice
Quotations from scientists

[anymouse]

"Let's roll." - Todd Beamer

"I'll not let them raise your taxes, over my dead body!" - President George Walker Bush

[Old Professer]

"An amour who doesn't know the difference between honor and inner should never go nearer."

Anonymous

[CHICAGOFARMER]

"Good order is the foundation of all things." --Edmund Burke {}

"Delay is preferable to error." --Thomas Jefferson {} "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." --John Adams {}

"A sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand." --Seneca (the Younger) {}

"Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned." --Herbert Hoover {}

"It's a poor rule that won't work both ways." --Frederick Douglass XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals." --Felix Frankfurter

[arly]

bang bang bang..... "I want to make this perfectly clear...I did not have sex with that woman....."..... It depends on what you mean by alone!

[arly]

oppps sorry I forgot you said from honorable people didn't you ! sorry