Allegiance Quotes · Page 4

My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man...not to democracy, or blood; it's to a King &…

— Derek Webb

“... our Janice is gone, but you're still here, and your first allegiance should never be to the dead.”

— Dean Koontz

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

— Russell Banks

“A lord who does not distribute wealth is a lord who will lose the allegiance of his men,”

— Bernard Cornwell

It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.

— George Washington

Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

— Anonymous

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

— James Bryce

“Ukitaka kuwa mfanyabiashara mzuri wa madawa ya kulevya usitumie madawa ya kulevya. Siri ya mafanikio ya Kolonia Santita ni nidhamu na kitalifa.”

— Enock Maregesi

President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the…

— John Updike

“Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being.”

— Bryant McGill

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and…

— Phyllis Schlafly

We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: To this point I…

— William Shakespeare

There are no barriers to entries. Think of this as Linux in terms of software. Anyone can have part of the operating…

— Paul Gigot

With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and…

— Jay Leno

One of the challenges of secularism is that it's not something outside us. In too many instances, secularism has so permeated the…

— Donald Wuerl

This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men…

— Bell Hooks

Whether we like it or not, a breakdown in home-life will eventually lead to a breakdown everywhere. This is, surely, the most…

— Martyn

“I would find no value in the allegiance of a fool ready to give himself up to any old hag of Black…

— Frank Beddor

The world also remains a hopeful place. Calls for democracy and human rights are being reborn everywhere, and these calls are an…

— George H. W. Bush

It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It…

— Anonymous

You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Wananchi wanapokosa huduma za muhimu za kijamii (kama vile afya, elimu, chakula, malazi, na ulinzi) ilhali wanalipa kodi, na wameajiri serikali kuwaendeshea…

— Enock Maregesi

“Calling resists privatization by insisting on the totality of faith. Calling resists politicization by demanding a tension with every human allegiance and…

— Os Guinness

For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions…

— Mark Twain

“Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man. The love of…

— Joseph Lewis

There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past.…

— Sherwin Wine

If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said…

— David Berlinski

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

— Connie Sellecca

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

— John F. Kennedy

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

— Patricia Schroeder

If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation.

— Timothy Keller

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

— Horace

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

— Wendell Berry

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

— Howard Dean

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

— Voltairine de Cleyre