Posted on 01/21/2002 1:00:01 PM PST by 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.
(Okay, is somewhat arcane, but Shakespeare fans will get it.)
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. -- Calvin Coolidge
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. -- Nicholas Boileau
Well, that all depends on what the meaning of "is" is. William Jefferson Blythe Clinton
"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
Cheers,
yer Congresscritter, Billybob
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. Sophocles
A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken. Pietro Aretino
Hold it the greatest wrong to prefer life to honor and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living. Juvenal
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient,
unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. Walter Lippmann
When faith is lost, when honor dies,
The man is dead. John Greenleaf Whittier
Honor begets honor, trust begets trust, faith begets faith, and hope is the mainspring of life. Henry L. Stimson
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
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.
-- Vince Lombardi
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
--- Theodore Roosevelt
-Winston Churchill
"I would lay down my life for America, but I cannot trifle with my honor."-- John Paul Jones
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