Top 100 Quotes About Allegiance

#1. The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same.

Judy Biggert

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#2. A story knows no honor. A story knows no allegiance. A story simply is.

Matthew J. Kirby

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#3. I owe my allegiance to the working class.

Seamus Costello

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#4. Do you really want to know what it's like, being a spy? Never sure to whom you're giving your allegiance, and knowing that most of your colleagues will die gruesomely, often by your hand? Fine. Let me show you.

Delilah S. Dawson

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#5. A bridge has no allegiance to either side.

Les Coleman

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#6. Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life.

Roger Kimball

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#7. Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

Llewellyn Rockwell

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#8. Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from its subjects. They are required merely to become accomplices in its lies.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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#9. Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.

Janet Morris

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#10. It's easy: You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your allegiance. At the end of that trail you'll find a throne; and whatever, or whoever, is on that throne is what's of highest value to you. On that throne is what you worship.

Louie Giglio

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#11. Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.

Walid Jumblatt

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#12. To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.

Henrietta Szold

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#13. The question remains, as it will always remain, one of ultimate authority. Who are you going to follow in your life? Who will command your allegiance? Christ ... or culture? You really can't have it both ways.

Stu Weber

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#14. Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

Emanuel Cleaver

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#15. Liberals insist they believe as strongly in the American dream as the rest of us, but routinely demonize those who succeed in attaining it. They loudly profess their allegiance to capitalism, but resent the inequitable money results it produces.

David Limbaugh

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#16. What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

Barack Obama

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#17. The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

Edith Hamilton

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#18. Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

Sean Hannity

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#19. A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

Edward Sapir

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#20. I don't even like Greg Glassman. I don't have a cult like allegiance to the guy. I really don't like him. He's too hard to get on the phone and he doesn't drink my kind of scotch.

Mark Rippetoe

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#21. There is...no easy answer to the evil and suffering problem and no easy road to its solution. But Christ tackled the matter radically and realistically by winning the allegiance of a few men and women to a new way of living...They were to be the spearhead of good against evil.

J.B. Phillips

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#22. Every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18)

Alexander McCall Smith

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#23. Where do real conversations about citizenship occur? In our schools. Think about the things you learned in first grade. "My Country 'Tis of Thee," "I pledge allegiance to the flag," "America the Beautiful."

Henry Louis Gates

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#24. I love the United States. I have applied for citizenship. I want to take the oath of allegiance on TV.

Craig Ferguson

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#25. I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.

Matt Groening

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#26. A friend who pays allegiance to his fellow friend just because of the favor and benefit he gets from him is no friend but an opportunist.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

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#27. Jack was unexpectedly moved when he swore allegiance to the king and country. He had served both for years, could easily have laid down his life. Yet it was different to pledge his loyalty and best efforts toward governing this nation. Dying was easier than making good laws.

Mary Jo Putney

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#28. This is how worship is connected to our ability to love. When we give our ultimate allegiance to any of the principalities and powers, large or small, we find ourselves perennially at war with anyone who places these things at risk. Idolatry breeds perpetual vigilance and violence.

Richard Beck

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#29. I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

John Bunyan

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#30. We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.

Howard Zinn

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#31. I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island,
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetratio n for all.

Gary Snyder

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#32. 'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.

Lea Salonga

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#33. Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being.

Bryant McGill

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#34. I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

Voltairine De Cleyre

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#35. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

Jesse Ventura

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#36. It is time to stand strong for the American people. It is time to champion the interests of those constantly neglected on the question of immigration: the men and women and children we represent - the citizens of this country to whom we owe our ultimate allegiance.

Jeff Sessions

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#37. In a three-way negotiation, the weakest party actually has the most power - because his allegiance added to either of the other two will choose the eventual winner.

Brandon Sanderson

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#38. Humanized gods are too small to captivate my imagination, or be worthy of my fullest allegiance.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#39. Truth to life, at the start, to be sure; yet once the process gets under way, truth to art is the greater allegiance

Julian Barnes

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#40. It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

Elvis Costello

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#41. I stand proud, but I never said my pledge allegiance

Capital STEEZ

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#42. Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Friedrich Schiller

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#43. Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life, that is to say, to Remission of Sin. For as Eternal life was lost by the committing, so it is recovered by the remitting of men's sins.

Thomas Hobbes

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#44. After a too-long moment, the crown prince spoke. "I don't quite comprehend why you'd force someone to bow when the purpose of the gesture is to display allegiance and respect." His words were coated with glorious boredom.

Sarah J. Maas

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#45. All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Henry David Thoreau

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#46. The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance.
He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him.
But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are
given to administer we presently imagine we own.

H.G.Wells

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#47. Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

Cullen Hightower

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#48. Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost, not to my political party.

Matt Salmon

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#49. We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn't be able to go through a day - but that's my own experience.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

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#50. While the Nazi party never officially condemned the Christian churches of the country (Hitler didn't want that problem on top of all the others), they undermined the meaning of Christianity by slowly replacing people's allegiance to God with loyalty to the party.

Rudi Wobbe

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#51. In trying to stop your tears, I was already obeying the officer's command to the letter, not out of patriotic allegiance, but out of cowardice, in order not to feel the pain of my own heart, breaking.

Ruth Ozeki

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#52. Apparently, after 20 minutes of waterboarding, not only will you admit allegiance to Osama bin Laden, you'll gladly die just to have relief.

Kenneth Eade

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#53. As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest.

Jackie Speier

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#54. I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.

Howard Dean

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#55. Teachers who pander to minority students by turning their courses into rap sessions and ethnic navel-gazing exercises capture their interest and allegiance.

Thomas Sowell

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#56. When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

Anthony Holden

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#57. As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born - a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the 'veiled treason' which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance.

John A. Macdonald

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#58. We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

Haile Selassie

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#59. The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

Stefan Molyneux

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#60. The essence of Christian obedience is not do's and don'ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

Timothy Keller

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#61. President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?

John Updike

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#62. It's a bit loose and the people in my group have got other groups. They don't have to have a total allegiance to me. I think that's really a bit weird and showing some weird insecurity.

Graham Coxon

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#63. We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

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#64. The way I see it, your potential allegiance is directly tied to whether you believe in what we're doing.

Kit Rocha

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#65. The purpose of the gospel proclamation is to cultivate obedient allegiance to Jesus the king among the nations (cf. Rom. 15:18).

Matthew W. Bates

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#66. A Winterian wielding an Autumnian weapon, using Cordellan allegiance to bring Spring crumbling down.

Sara Raasch

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#67. Libertarianism is "cultish," say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its songs, its mass murders, its little children saluting and paying homage to pictures of their dear leaders on the wall, etc.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

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#68. Babies here are forced to declare their allegiance to vegetables before

Becky Albertalli

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#69. I am not anarchist. I have nothing against government or law enforcement in general. It is solely for the reason that this govt has legalized the murder of children that I have no allegiance to nor do I recognize the legitimacy of this particular government in Washington.

Eric Rudolph

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#70. All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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#71. The desire the law makers have in having only dispensary owners to control marijuana is part of the game our law makers play to create a bureau of specific business created that owes its allegiance to the political process and therefore will make sure that process continues.

Steven Machat

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#72. My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.

Jesse Ventura

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#73. Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

James Bryce

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#74. The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible.

James L. Petigru

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#75. Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

John F. Kennedy

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#76. I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch my allegiance to another show. So I was like, 'I'm not watching this 'True Blood.' Then a friend got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes, and by the third one, I was irrevocably hooked.

Denis O'Hare

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#77. Marco [Rubio] has more of an allegiance to Chuck Schumer and to the liberals than he does to conservative policy.

Ted Cruz

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#78. Of course she could not help but be drawn to people like Hank, people with their own fire, but no matter how much they thought they loved you or their family or their country, no matter how they pledged their allegiance, that fire always burned for them alone.

Philipp Meyer

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#79. Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.

Henry David Thoreau

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#80. The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the Sermon on the Mount. It is high time people banded together to do this.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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#81. As long as we are on this earth, we possess dual citizenship. On one hand we owe allegiance to our nation and are called to be good citizens. But we are also citizens of the kingdom of God. Our supreme loyalty is to Him.

Billy Graham

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#82. Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.

Louis Kronenberger

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#83. For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.

John F. Kennedy

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#84. Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state.

Lawrence Hunter

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#85. The "word" did not "offer itself" in a take-it-or-leave-it fashion, any more than Caesar's heralds would have said, "If you'd like a new kind of imperial experience, you might like to try giving allegiance to the new emperor.

N. T. Wright

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#86. There is a congratulatory culture in the Gulf. From birth onwards, there is a culture of giving people trophies as markers of achievement for making it through society. It's cementing allegiance to authority at a very young age.

Ayshay

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#87. All across America news organizations have been devoured by massive corporations, and allegiance to stockholders, the drive for higher share prices, and push for larger dividend returns trumps everything that the grunts in the newsrooms consider their missions.

Laurie Garrett

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#88. The Pledge of Allegiance says 'liberty and justice for all'. Which part of 'all' don't you understand?

Pat Schroeder

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#89. Congress wants to keep "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Washington politicians are united in their faith. Most worship the same reelection.

Allan Ray

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#90. Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.

Christopher Hitchens

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#91. Xcor's own hand trembled as he reached forth. Grasping Wrath's palm, he kissed the ring and then placed it upon his bowed forehead. "Fore'ermore, I pledge my allegiance unto to you and yours, serving none other." Both

J.R. Ward

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#92. The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.

Seneca The Younger

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#93. In a new interview, Newt Gingrich says he cheated on two of his wives because he was too consumed with love for his country. Yeah, apparently he misunderstood the phrase, 'Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.'

Conan O'Brien

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#94. I hated his religion and its cold disapproving gaze, its malevolence that cloaked itself in pretended kindness, and its allegiance to a god who would drain the joy from the world by naming it sin,

Bernard Cornwell

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#95. The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.

Ralph Nader

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#96. I understand the loss of a comrade is something to mourn, but our responsibilities do not end because one has lost the fight. We as defenders of this nation have an obligation to those who've sworn allegiance to us. And I intend to uphold my oath to the people of this land, no matter the cost.

Charles Lee

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#97. Every principle that wants to command strong allegiance must make a moral case. Men want to feel that what they are doing is useful, but they want also, and mainly, to feel that it is right. Freedom is one of these principles

Henry Wallich

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#98. So, I mean to say, as for those who are proving their allegiance with what I would call sickening perseverance, and who are urging the president to brush away the constitution, those I would like to remind of a Russian proverb: Don't spit into the well, it'll come in handy once you're thirsty.

Vladimir Posner

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#99. Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.

Vance Havner

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#100. It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

Norman Douglas

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