Oath Quotes

224 Oath quotes by 175 unique authors

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. — Aeschylus
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God… — James L. Buckley
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind. — Samuel Butler
Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of… — Mary Hunter Austin
The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn — William Shakespeare
There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I… — Langston Hughes
You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good enough for us to ask… — Trey Gowdy
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days… — Mark Twain
A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains,… — Mark Twain
Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no… — Abraham Lincoln
Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects… — Abraham Lincoln
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. — Samuel Johnson
We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world,… — Elwyn Brooks White
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag. — Seneca the Younger
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as… — William Shakespeare
Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place… — Unknown Author
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand… — Toni Morrison
I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve… — Unknown Author
Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ? — George Washington
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. — Aeschylus
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution,… — Roy H. Williams
Reliable people have been seeing the phenomenon known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. There are good reports as far back as… — Morris K. Jessup
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You… — Abraham Lincoln
For those who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, it is a call of duty to… — Unknown Author

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