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.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

Men who are rogues individually are in the mass very honorable people.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender in its place was as honorable as resistance especially if one had no choice.

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

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating honorable and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country the supremacy of the Federal government an honorable peace or none at all.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.