Quotes About Allegiance

In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple. LUKE 14:33

In the end, one can only die for Sibylle. To love for her, my friends say, is degrading.

I learned...that loyalty does not mean stepping into line but falling out of it for the people we love.

Just very practically, pastors need to be careful that while they have a right to call people to absolute allegiance to the Word of God, we don't have the right to call people to absolute allegiance to our programs or every ministry we have at the church.

I still want to see the Knicks do well; I do. I promise I do. That's my team. After all the stuff that happened, people say to me, 'You still like the Knicks?' Well, that's just the way it is. That's what happens when you're a kid. Your team is your team, and everything is die-hard.

Are they happy with our God? Are they happy with our prophet? Are they happy with our leader? Never. I don't care about rest of the world. I care about my country.

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

Make no mistake: Deciding to abstain from the Pledge of Allegiance does communicate something, and therefore, it is a form of speech. It's also a form of peaceful protest, the right to which is another one of our values.

I'm proud to be a Cardinal.

I am proud to be an American Citizen.

I love Israel, am proud of it.

For never shall I lose a closer friend, Nor braver in my need. And worthy is she Of honour, who alone hath died for me.

We all have personal favorites, whether we choose a god or a friend.

Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe – has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance…That is the first discovery, that Christianity is essential to civilization and that it is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.

Did you have a little talk with mummy?' 'Yes.' 'Have you gone over to her side?' The day before I would have said: 'There aren't two sides'; that day I said, 'No, I'm with you, Sebastian contra mundum.

Did you have a little talk with mummy?' 'Yes.' 'Have you gone over to her side?' The day before I would have said: 'There aren't two sides,'; that day I said, 'No, I'm with you, Sebastian contra mundum.

I found myself on Gatsby's side and alone.

If I'm a fan, I'm a fan for life.

My dad was the biggest Alabama fan ever, and I was brainwashed.

The only club I couldn't play for is Newell's Old Boys because I am a fan of Rosario Central.

I'm a Cubs fan, a Bulls fan.

I really like people who stick with their fellow countrymen.

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

I would never do anything to damage United, whoever the owners might be, and I am sure that no United fan would want me to do that.