Oath Quotes
224 quotes by 175 authors
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
— Aeschylus
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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
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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
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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
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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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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next…
— Laozi
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The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new…
— George W. Bush
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and…
— Herodotus
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Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its…
— John F. Kennedy
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Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the…
— William Howard Taft
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There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
— Plato
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America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!
— Langston Hughes
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When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy.
— Muhammad Ali
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Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever…
— Tom Lehrer
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God is almighty to pardon, but He will not use His power for a shameless sinner. He is able to save and help in time…
— William Gurnall
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Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should be seen as…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman…
— Richard Rorty
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America, not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on,
— Dennis Prager
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The important thing, Jesus is saying (in Matthew 5:33-37), is to tell the truth and keep one's pledges without insisting that a certain form of…
— D. A. Carson
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When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth,
— Rafael Palmeiro
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