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Quotes About Allegiance

I loved Ann and would help her. Nothing in the depths of Hell would keep me from it.
~ Richard Matheson
He who lives under it and is disloyal to it is a traitor to the human race everywhere.
~ Richard McKenna
We [the military personnel here] serve the flag. The trade we all follow is the give and take of death. It is for that purpose that the American people maintain us. Any one of us who believes he has a job like any other, for which he draws a money wage, is a thief of the food he eats and a trespasser of the bunk in which he lies down to sleep.
~ Richard McKenna
the civilization which had given birth to Bigger contained no spiritual sustenance, had created no culture which could hold and claim his allegiance and faith, had sensitized him and had left him stranded
~ Richard Wright
Hades smiled coldly. Hello, Father. You're looking...young. Hades, Kronos growled. I hope you and the ladies have come to pledge your allegiance. I'm afraid not. Hades sighed. My son here convinced me that perhaps I should prioritize my list of enemies. He glanced at me with distaste. As much as I dislike certain upstart demigods, it would not do for Olympus to fall. I would miss bickering with my siblings. And if there is one thing we agree on - it is that you were a TERRIBLE father.
~ Rick Riordan
Hades, Kronos growled. I hope you and the ladies have come to pledge your allegiance. I'm afraid not. Hades sighed. My son here convinced me that perhaps I should prioritize my list of enemies. He glanced at me with distaste. As much as I dislike certainupstart demigods, it would not do for Olympus to fall. I would miss bickering with my siblings. And if there is one thing we agree on—it is that you were a TERRIBLE father.
~ Rick Riordan
Everything was from duty, nothing from love. Duty killed you in the end.
~ Kate Atkinson
There were certain things one had to do before one could really call oneself a man, and fighting for king and country was among them. They
~ Ken Follett
Hacía que le dieran ganas de echarse a llorar por su país.
~ Ken Follett
Without allegiance to the Constitution it doesn't matter one hill of beans which party is in power!
~ Chuck Baldwin
I'm not attached to anything.I'm attached to what it feels it's my duty, to do my duty.I think that I will die with the boots on.
~ Fidel Castro
A Winterian wielding an Autumnian weapon, using Cordellan allegiance to bring Spring crumbling down.
~ Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes
Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
As Nachmanides championed the cause of Maimonides against his enemies, so he took up the cause of Alfazi, against Sarachya Halevi and Abraham Ben David, who attacked Alfazi's Talmudic productions.
~ William Rosenau
At the heart of this phenomenon, Fourth Generation war,4 lies not a military evolution but a political, social, and moral revolution: a crisis of legitimacy of the state. All over the world, citizens of states are transferring their primary allegiance away from the state to other entities: to tribes, ethnic groups, religions, gangs, ideologies, and "causes." Many people who will no longer fight for their state are willing to fight for their new primary loyalty.
~ William S. Lind
Service is no heritage.
~ William Shakespeare
Had I but serv'd my God with half the zealI serv'd my king, he would not in mine ageHave left me naked to mine enemies.
~ William Shakespeare
I do perceive here a divided duty.
~ William Shakespeare
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother tomorrow.
~ William Shakespeare
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
~ William T. Sherman
The enemy say that Americans are good at a long shot, but cannot stand the cold iron. I call upon you instantly to give a lie to the slander. Charge!
~ Winfield Scott
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
~ Winston Churchill
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
~ Woodrow Wilson
The old gods were the Titans. Humans are the Olympians. We banished the previous generation of gods to make gods of ourselves. But billions of humans still swear their allegiance to the deposed gods.
~ David Sinclair