Quotes About Allegiance

The number of people who are actual supporters of Mr. Romney could very well be less than the Donner Party, whose members they sadly resemble in many ways.

One of the reasons Old Firm supporters could relate to me was I was one of them, playing for the team I wanted to play for. If we scored at Celtic Park, the only people I wanted to celebrate in front of was Rangers supporters.

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

The English season will be over; I'm a Brazilian who loves my country, so of course I will be following and supporting the side as much as any fan.

I belong to a strong Congress family. Right from my grandfather, my family has been supporting the Congress.

Egyptians are always and will always be supportive of their Palestinian brothers, all Palestinians.

I've been a Corinthians fan since I was little, even before I played there, my family also supports the club.

Not everybody who supports Donald Trump, not everyone who supports Hilary Clinton, are exactly the kind of people that you want as supporters.

I've always been a big Ajax fan. It is not very strange - my whole family supports Ajax.

My decision to go to Duke wasn't a surprise to people who really knew me because I was always a Duke fan growing up.

I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.

I've never been a surrogate for Bernie, Hillary, or the DNC.

Old enemies must be friends when a greater evil looms.

The census, they argued, was an abomination. It was affirmation of the slavery of the Jews. To be voluntarily tallied like sheep was, in Judas's view, tantamount to declaring allegiance to Rome. It was an admission that the Jews were not the chosen tribe of God but the personal property of the emperor.

Vincet amor patriae. (Vergil Aen. 6.823.)

Prophta in su patri honrem nn habet.

They lived in them all or they died and every man with them; they had come to believe that to abandon one man was to abandon themselves.

putting Preet Bharara in this key position, Senator Schumer was able to deliver for his Wall Street friends. I guess it is possible that Preet Bharara and the dozens of other political appointees that Senator Schumer recommended and supported, all independently decided that Wall Street executives should not be investigated or prosecuted? Or, were they following the instructions of their political benefactor, Senator Schumer?

Those in favour rarely stayed in favour; it was just a question of when they fell.

Heroes become traitors, traitors become martyrs.

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

Loyalty to an employer is the most vulgar of loyalties.

I shouldn't have to do the foot-soldier work, Tahiri. Be my eyes and ears. I'd hate to have to use ch'hala trees. You're smarter than a tree--aren't you? --Darth Caedus to Tahiri Veila

All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.