Quotes About Allegiance

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.

To get through a war, a man needs something bigger than himself to fight for.

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.

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

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.

What is God looking for? He is looking for men and women whose hearts are completely His - completely.

I am...wholeheartedly a Galbraith man.

Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.

He's my man, he was great

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.

Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men.

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.