Honorable Man Quotations

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

Gaylord (Perry) is a very honorable man. He only calls for the spitter when he needs it.

You are an honest and honorable man...Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.

the systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honorable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life; and of the people being thus deprived of some better servants than any they have.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

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.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

Well, I think a handshake is something that honorable men do. Before we had contracts we had handshakes that expressed that we were making an arrangement that was based on our honor. And I don't think I can shake the hand of someone who shows and lacks honor by attacking a man's faith.

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

And Brutus is an honorable man,

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

I believe I am an honorable man.

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

A good man will never harm or oppress another. A good man will share his last morsel of food with others in need, and die of hunger when he no longer has any food -- instead of cheat or steal from others to survive. Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.

A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

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.

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.