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“Factions among yourselves; preferring such To offices and honors, as ne'er read The elements of saving policy; But deeply skilled in all the principles That usher to destruction.”

Politics Principles Policy Honor Office Elements Destruction Saving Factions

Author:Philip Massinger

“Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the maligners of his honor.”

Country Politics Honor Fairs Shining Congress Warrior Halls Knights Foreheads Brazen

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“Our tears are not enough. Our words and our prayers are not enough. If we really want to honor these twelve men and women, if we really want to be a country where we can go to work and go to school and walk our streets free from senseless violence, without so many lives being stolen by a bullet from a gun, then we're gonna have to change. We're gonna have to change.”

“It is unnatural that a pure stream should flow from a foul fountain its vices are but a continuation of the vices of its origin. A man of moral honor and good political principles, cannot submit to the mean drudgery and disgraceful arts, by which such elections are carried. To be a successful candidate, he must be destitute of the qualities that constitute a just legislator: and being thus disciplined to corruption it is not to be expected that the representative should be better than the man.”

“Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.”

Political Politics Consciousness Ought Honor Touched Conscientiousness Public Money

Book:Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.”

Political Politics Willing Honor Sake

Book:The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters

Source: The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters

“When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.”

People Whole Government Political Politics Moral Honor

Book:Addresses Upon the American Road, 1950-1955

Source: Addresses Upon the American Road, 1950-1955