Honorable Man Quotes

Henceforth no Jew, no matter under what name, will be allowed to remain here without my written permission. I know of no other troublesome pest within the state than this race, which impoverished the people by their fraud, usury and money-lending and commits all deeds which an honorable man despises. Subsequently they have to be removed and excluded from here as much as possible.

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 take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

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

You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation, and we have got the authority of the Priesthood; but if we are not honest, it does not amount to anything; for neither God nor honorable men love dishonesty. We must, therefore, be an honest people.

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.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

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.

Honorable men don’t settle for lives of regret.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I believe I am an honorable man.