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Let us also reflect on the honorable service of our men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces currently serving our country overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, and around the world. ↗

— John Linder

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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

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In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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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. ↗

— Paul McCartney

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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

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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

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The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.' ↗

— Paul Ryan

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But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't. ↗

— Dabney Coleman

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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

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