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.

[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

[mc5cents]

How happy is he born and taught,
That serveth not another's will;
Whose armor is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost skill!

Henry Wotton
From "The Character of a Happy Life"

[kailbo]

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christian. Thomas Jefferson

If we do right God will be with us, and if God is with us we cannot fail. Abraham Lincoln

None but men of strong passions are capable of rising to greatness. Maribeau

I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson.

[mc5cents]

"I was trying to make my mouth say I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and and write to that nigger's owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie--I found that out."
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,

[pa_dweller]

If

If you can keep your head when all about you 
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; 
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, 
But make allowance for their doubting too; 
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, 
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, 
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, 
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; 

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; 
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; 
If you can meet with triumph and disaster 
And treat those two imposters just the same; 
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken 
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, 
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, 
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools; 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings 
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, 
And lose, and start again at your beginnings 
And never breath a word about your loss; 
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew 
To serve your turn long after they are gone, 
And so hold on when there is nothing in you 
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on"; 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, 
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; 
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; 
If all men count with you, but none too much; 
If you can fill the unforgiving minute 
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - 
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, 
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

Rudyard Kipling 

[GOPyouth]

"huh huh huh huh" -Butthead

[JoeSixPack1]

"Pacifists are among the most immoral of men.
They make no distinction between aggression and defense.
Therefore, pacifism is one of the greatest allies an aggressor can have!"
by Patrick Henry"

[July 4th]

"When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive." - President George W. Bush

[hoosier_RW_conspirator]

"...we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor." The Declaration of Independence

"Better fall covered and scarred with the wounds of glory, than to surrender through expediency what is right, or to yield for the sake of expediency to what is wrong." Joseph Holt

"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." Alexander Pope