Every principle that wants to command strong allegiance must make a moral case. Men want to feel that what they are doing… — Henry Wallich Copy Share Image
Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications.… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I pledge allegiance to the soil of Turtle Island, and to the beings who thereon dwell one ecosystem in diversity under the… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality. — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Justice William Brennan stated that the phrase 'under God' in our Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional because it no longer has a… — Mathew Staver Copy Share Image
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The journalist's first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers… — Bill Kovach Copy Share Image
Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant… — Leonard Horn Copy Share Image
Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met… — J. J. C. Smart Copy Share Image
The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
As it is my good fortune to be American, I live in the only country that as a matter of policy is… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of… — John Bingham Copy Share Image
Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“The mildest allegiance was proof one parent was the rightest and the most beloved, and I refused to call the winner and… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
To seduce the enemies soldiers from their allegiance and encourage them to surrender is of special service, for an adversary is more… — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Copy Share Image
“Allegiance is a powerful force in human affairs; it will not do to treat someone as a mental serf if he is… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage -… — Henrietta Szold Copy Share Image
If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
“Let us not forget the obligation which rests upon us to render allegiance and service to the Lord, and that acceptable service… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance… — Harry Houdini Copy Share Image
Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and… — Lawrence Hunter Copy Share Image
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
When we understand our baptismal covenant and the gift of the Holy Ghost, it will change our lives and will establish our… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Mine honesty and I begin to square. The loyalty well held to fools does make Our faith mere folly; yet he that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the… — Mencius Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of… — Randy Neugebauer Copy Share Image
When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
“What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image