Allegiance Quotes

If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.

Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

Congress wants to keep "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Washington politicians are united in their faith. Most worship the same reelection.

A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.

Your allegiance is with your spouse; you cannot break that by showing allegiance to your ex-spouse.

There is one allegiance that unites us all, and that is to America.

To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.

All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

Were aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.

Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state.

It is with complete allegiance to the cause of racial and social justice and the NAACP that I step aside from the Presidency and pass the baton to my Vice President, Naima Quarles-Burnley.

I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.

Those who liberated the south from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.

...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag.

Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry us! Pray eat something --L.

[Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.

President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?

True allegiance is only given willingly.

Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.

To seduce the enemies soldiers from their allegiance and encourage them to surrender is of special service, for an adversary is more hurt by desertion than by slaughter.

The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.

I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect.

Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

I love the United States. I have applied for citizenship. I want to take the oath of allegiance on TV.

Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

I want to declare my Citizenship in the Kingdom of God and my allegiance to His Kingdom and His City!

The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

In my imaginary utopian world there would be a greater allegiance between music writers and musicians.

As the audience, I always love to get to a point where, surprisingly, I find myself in a secret friendship allegiance with the characters that are unexpected.

Where the novel makes use of material from my life it does so because it's aesthetically convenient, not because of any allegiance it has to any verifiable facts.

By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

There must be some point, at which the lawyer's own personal and social morality will rebel against his traditional allegiance to his client.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.

We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.

Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.

Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.

Justice William Brennan stated that the phrase 'under God' in our Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional because it no longer has a religious purpose or meaning.