I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged… — Walther Funk Copy Share Image
I want to say to all of you that when I take my oath of office I will do my absolute best… — Michael D. Higgins Copy Share Image
When an oath is taken ... the mind is more attentive; for it guards against two things, the reproach of friends and… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The president of the United States, on Inauguration Day, takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws. Those are the laws that… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
I took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
“I suppose so.” An oath was an oath, though I rather wondered if Hippocrates ever ran into this sort of situation himself.… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one I’ve had since the day I swore an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books . Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think the personal satisfaction of doing good in the community and increasing value and holding true to the Hippocratic oath and… — Raul Ruiz Copy Share Image
“I know that, if I took your oath, I should be damned.” “There are those who would envy your insight,” he says,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers believed that our Creator gave us certain inalienable rights. The Pledge of Allegiance simply reinforces the beliefs that led… — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“I took an oath June. I am still bound by that oath. I will die with honor for sacrificing everything I have-everything-for… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“Just tell me before you go," said Lee, "because I won't be easy till I know. What side I'm fighting for I… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“I am made to sow the thistle for wheat; the nettle for a nourishing dainty I have planted a false oath in… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely lipstick cost… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
“And that's the last oath I shall ever be able to swear," she thought; "once I set foot on English soil. And… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We took an oath back when we were teenagers that this is UGK for life. We've actually got tattoos on our arms… — Pimp C Copy Share Image
Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent, shaped by other judges equally striving… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Standing beside you, I took an oath to make your life simpler by complicating mine and what I always thought would happen… — David Ignatow Copy Share Image
Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America. — Frank Nugent Copy Share Image
The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
A judge should be evaluated by whether he faithfully upholds his oath to God, not to the people, to the state or… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“We do not stop. You all took the oath to come here. Hard work lies before us in breeding our new community.… — Donna Galanti Copy Share Image
“An oath is a frightening thing when you are prepared to keep it, and I felt it tightening around my soul even… — Rob S. Rice Copy Share Image
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The public citizenship oath done in a court in front of a judge and one's fellow citizens should be done publicly. — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
“Then we should let our hearts and souls dictate our actions, My Grimsby, not contracts. There are those who can judge us,… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image