Quotes About Allegiance

On Thanksgiving night in 1915, fifty years after the close of the Civil War, Simmons and fifteen other men clambered up the granite monolith of Stone Mountain in Georgia. They built an altar on which they laid a Bible, an American flag, and a sword. The men set fire to a cross and shouted to the heavens an oath of allegiance to the Invisible Empire of a new age. The Ku Klux Klan had risen, Simmons proclaimed, "awakened from a slumber of a half a century.

The Klan claimed fifteen United States senators under its control, and seventy-five members of the House of Representatives. Many had sworn allegiance in secret Klan initiation rituals, becoming "naturalized," as it was called.

patriotism involves serving your own country.

A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better.

Lots of army officers... a large number still believe that I have done my best for this country. They respect me.

Because my brother liked Michigan, I liked Michigan, and by the nature of that, I didn't like Ohio State.

For some reason, I always have an allegiance to Ohio. I had a great childhood, and to return to it is very comforting.

Though I graduated from Vanderbilt, I was born into a family of crazed University of Oklahoma football fans and became one.

I love my country. That's the thing about the Olympics. You're doing it for your country.

Untruthful! My nephew Algernon? Impossible! He is an Oxonian.

Which side are you on, Cade? she asked quietly. Unwilling to answer the implications in that question, Cade gave the simple truth. Mine. His

To enter the realm of play, we must give ourselves to something or someone and turn away from all else. It is both a pledge and a betrayal.

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.

After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil.

any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil. —

"After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself… And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself."

"You are my superior officer. You are also my friend. I have been and always shall be yours."

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

Loyalty is standing on someone's side even if their actions are against your will.

Whoever is prepared to make the national cause his own to such an extent that he knows no higher ideal than the welfare of his nation; whoever has understood our great national anthem, "Deutschland ueber Alles," to mean that nothing in the wide world surpasses in his eyes this Germany, people and land—that man is a Socialist.

I now think that it was in my honours year that drugs and I got very tight, became best friends, pledged allegiance to one another.

I claim you as my life mate. I belong to you. I offer my life for you. I give to you my protection, my allegiance, my heart, my soul, and my body. I take into my keeping the same that is yours. Your life, happiness, and welfare will be cherished and placed above my own for all time. You are my life mate, bound to me for all eternity and always in my care.

For some people love is like a king they swear allegiance to. That kind of person has to be released from one bond before they can begin to forge another one. All very conventional behavior, but fiercely interior convention. I'm not trying to imply that such people are wise or that they impress me -- I'm one of them, and it's probably the most futile form of integrity going. But if it's a side dish to other forms of integrity, then it's all right.