#honorable

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#assure #best #earth #free #freedom

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#choose #comes #competence #elements #hand

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#harder #honorable #more #oneself #path

I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#against #class #feel #honorable #i

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. ↗

— Petrarch

#born #fortune #honorable #merit #more

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#deeply #democracy #devised #dying #ever

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them. ↗

— Claudia Christian

#nerds #respectful #sci-fi #them #trust

An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it. ↗

— John Paul Jones

#always #blood #continue #delight #first

There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried? ↗

— Judd Apatow

#baby #breaking #breaking up #divorced #get

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work. ↗

— Don Nickles

#executives #good #good work #honest #honest men