Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 348 Honor quotesHonor QuotesHonor Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.~ Samuel Adams The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.~ Samuel Adams He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man...The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.~ Samuel Adams It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.~ Aeschylus Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.~ Aeschylus For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.~ Aeschylus Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.~ Aesop I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.~ Publius Terentius Afer [A] deep-rooted culture of incompetence and corruption has made it virtually impossible for government to function fairly and efficiently. And because most government employees are shielded by layers of protection, they couldn't care less. Never before in the history of this nation has there been a greater divide between a self-serving federal leviathan and millions of Americans... 'Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,' Ronald Reagan reminded us during his inaugural address in 1981. Nothing's changed since then, with one exception: It's gotten far worse.~ Arnold Ahlert I shall not counsel or maintain any suit or proceeding which shall appear to me to be unjust, nor any defense except such as I believe to be honestly debatable under the law of the land.~ American Bar Association Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.~ Saint Thomas Aquinas Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.~ Saint Thomas Aquinas The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie -- a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days -- but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.~ Hannah Arendt Dignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving them.~ Aristotle The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.~ Aristotle If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.~ William D. Arnot True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost.~ Arthur Ashe Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.~ W. H. Auden Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print