Quotes About Allegiance

you are on the wrong side as soon as you pick one.

There's nothing unpatriotic about the truth," muttered Leo, wondering whether there might be.

You pick your Chief, you pick your side, you pick your crew and then you stand by 'em, whatever the wind blows up.

Which side are we on, then?" "That's one o'those questions you try not to answer till you have to.

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.

A friend tells a story about taking his ten-year-old son to a Jets game. The game was being played during a driving rain on a freezing cold day, and the Jets lost by twenty points to a team they were supposed to beat. As they headed toward the exits, the boy looked up, with tears in his eyes, and asked, 'Dad, why are we Jets fans?

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Love can do much, but duty more.

No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.

To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.

When you're nWo, you're nWo for life.

Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.

I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

Patriotism knows neither latitude nor longitude. It is not climatic.

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

It is my greatest wish to be thought of as a godfather, a man whose duty it is to do my friends any service, to help my friends out of any trouble- with advice, with money, with my own strength in men and influence- To everyone at this table, I say your enemies are my enemies, and your friends are my friends.

Il diavolo! —dijo Clemenza—. Vinnie Suits, de Brooklyn, jura que vio a Brasi recibir una bala a quemarropa en el corazón, levantarse y salir andando como si no hubiese ocurrido nada.

As ambassadors of Jesus Christ, they were consumed with the task given to them by God. Any authority and influence they had were not their own, or even connected to their brilliance or dynamic leadership strategies. Rather, they were servants of the King. Their allegiance was to his priorities, and they discerned the many ways they could walk in obedience to show and share the gospel in a world of great need.

God does not want us distracted. He does not want our loyalties to be divided. Our allegiances are to be His alone. He loves us that intensely.

If the condition of the love of country is a lie, the love itself, no matter how genuine, is a lie.

For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

Almanzor, in Dryden's tragedy of "Almahide," did not change sides with more gallant indifference than the exemplary nurse.