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"We would rather starve than sell our national honor."
"To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy."
"Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory."
"A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety."
"The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice."
"Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he tells us why we didn't honor the Geneva accords and hold elections in Vietnam: because some 80 percent of the country would have voted for Ho Chi Minh. This is very candid. The sort of thing one might have found in Stalin'smemoirs, had he not made ghosts even of ghosts."
"Without money honor is merely a disease."
"There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves."
"To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us."
"Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable"
"I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion."
"And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."
"We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary."
"The only job you have in life is to recognize and honor your personal legend"
"Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others."
"For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them"
"Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same."
"Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants."
"The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation."