Honorable Man quotes
23 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself."
"I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures."
"Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man."
"A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man."
"It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes."
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"Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly."
"There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones."
"You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life."
