Pledged Quotes
66 quotes by 65 authors
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Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we…
— Patrick Henry
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
— David McCullough
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We have pledged to be the greenest government ever. We must lead by example...We are not asking others to do things we will not do…
— Charles Hendry
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It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined…
— Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life. It's between the…
— Jeff Sharlet
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In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and dedication. These the…
— John F. Kennedy
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I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press…
— George McGovern
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The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged…
— Bob Schaffer
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God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
— J I Packer
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But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word…
— Alan Seeger
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I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself,…
— Pierre Loti
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This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international community had pledged…
— Park Geun-hye
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There are always some of us, not a few, in every generation, who go over wholly to the green flag. It is such a passionless…
— Donald C. Peattie
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Give us our parliament in Scotland. We will start with no traditions. We will start with ideals. We will start with purpose, with courage. We…
— James Maxton
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When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group - ‘We the people’.
— Ronald Reagan
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Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime…
— Stockwell Day
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The man whose little sermon is ‘repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose…
— Joseph Parker
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