Quotes from "Honorable " people

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[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.

[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.