"Our country is not the only thing to……" — James Bryce
"Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity."
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25 Quotes by James Bryce
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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
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Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their…
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I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found…
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A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
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To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.
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There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have…
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Perhaps the most typically American place in America.
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Life is too short for reading inferior books.
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Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he…
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The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many…
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California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.
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More Allegiance Quotes
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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
— Russell Banks
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To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance…
— Vincent Bugliosi
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You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular…
— Judith Butler
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I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West,…
— Henry Clay
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When you enlisted into the armed forces you swore to support and defend a Constitution that did not yet fully…
— David Petraeus
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You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve…
— Janet Morris
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I wouldn't pick a judge who said that the Pledge of Allegiance couldn't be said in a school because it…
— George W. Bush
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Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be…
— Janet Morris
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
— Seneca the Younger
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I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits…
— Mark Twain
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