Honorable Quotes

Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious.

Respecting the United Nations as the living sign of all people's hope for peace, we shall strive to make it not merely an eloquent symbol but an effective force. And in our quest for an honorable peace, we shall neither compromise, nor tire, nor ever cease.

The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.

In the days and in the years that are to come we shall work for a just and honorable peace, a durable peace, as today we work and fight for total victory in war. We can and we will achieve such a peace.

I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

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

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.