”I have been asked what i mean by word of honor i will tell you : place me behind prison walls -walls of stone ever so high , ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground- there's a possibility that some way or another i might be able to escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me give my word of honor never to cross it ? no never! Id dies first.”

I think this quote means that when someone gives you their word which is like a promise a trust they should go by it which is never to break it because that loses trust on a lot of people.

                    

Karl G. Maeser