Quotes About Allegiance

Forming communities - even and especially ones based on strong loyalties and allegiances - is in our DNA. It's what's kept us alive for millions of years.

We must be loyal to the forum of our government.

I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10.

Why PSG? Because to leave United, the biggest team in England, you need something like PSG, which is the biggest in France. I could not play in another English club.

Indeed, as some of the Protestant traditions recognize, the symbol of a cross per se can all too readily become a mere token or amulet leading to superstition and magical thinking. Even worse, when detached from its significance, it can and often has become a sign denoting allegiance to a cause that mocks the very One who died in that way — the cross of Constantine, the Crusaders, and the Ku Klux Klan.

I would find no value in the allegiance of a fool ready to give himself up to any old hag of Black Imagination who presented herself. I will accept your allegiance. For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man. To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service. (Redd and Sacrenoir)

Loyalty in a male army fastens onto the army itself rather than onto the civilization which fosters the army.

You have no body shield," Idaho said. "Do you wish mine?" He glanced at the distant cliff. "Not likely there'll be any more lasgun activity about." "Keep your shield, Duncan. Your right arm is shield enough for me.

no one else has ever taken my side as knowingly and willingly as you, despite everything, despite everything

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.

As a citizen of the United States, I am ready, willing, and able to bear arms for this country.

Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost, not to my political party.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

At the end of the day a player has to show willingness to actually want to play for the club, and want to play for the team.

My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.

It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins.

You won't see me taking it easy on the Cowboys because I'm from Texas, you won't see me cheering for the Cowboys because I'm from Texas. I'll be a Redskin, through and through.

A lot of my family is from Texas, stuff like that, so I was always in Texas, and when you grow up in Texas, around Texas, you want to go to the biggest Texas school, and UT was that.

Our Civil War history is important, but it belongs in textbooks and museums - not a place of allegiance on our Capitol grounds.

I was asked to play for Italy, and I was very appreciative. I was 19, and I said, 'No, thank you.' It was very hard, but I am Argentinian, and it would have been deceit.