John Brown Quotes

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.

For me, I don't go in the backdoor. That's the one thing I don't do.

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them.

Traditionally I'm not a very good secret-keeper.

I value my ability to keep state secrets.

If someone tells me something and asks me to keep it a secret, I always do.

If you do get to know me, I'll tell everything to you. But I don't want to tell everything to the wrong people.

I'm not exposing anything thats private - that's one thing I won't do.

We try and be as open as we can, and to protect the secrets that we must protect.

Act with honor, and Honor will aid you

Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.

The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

I hate cheating. I won’t put up with it. I don’t do it myself.

Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.

Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.