Oath Quotes

224 quotes by 175 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath. — Plato
America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be! — Langston Hughes
When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy. — Muhammad Ali
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
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
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
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
America, not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on, — Dennis Prager
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
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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