Quotes About Allegiance

Next, taking him to a very high mountain, the devil showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendour. 'I will give you all these' he said, 'if you fall at my feet and worship me.' Then Jesus replied, 'Be off, Satan! For scripture says: You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone.' Then the devil left him, and angels appeared and looked after him.

I venerate the intellect of man. I believe in its undreamed-of possibilities, when it grows free like an oak in the forest and is not dwarfed in a flower-pot. From that allegiance I have never wavered. That is the God I have never forsworn.

If you're going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

Again, if we have any anxiety about our own salvation, we ought to make no peace nor truce with him who is continually laying schemes for its destruction. But such is the character given to Satan in the third chapter of Genesis, where he is seen seducing man from his allegiance to God, that he may both deprive God of his due honour, and plunge man headlong in destruction.

Therefore by the example of Abram, entire self-renunciation is   enjoined, that we may live and die to God alone.

If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received

In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life - one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough.

I've been a Democrat all my life.

Stand, soldier of the cross, Thy high allegiance claim, And vow to hold the world but loss For Thy Redeemer's Name.

Summers complained of 'the development of stateless elites whose allegiance is to global economic success and their own prosperity rather than the interests of the nation where they are headquartered'.75

But he was a free and clear man, and the law said so. Augustus never hurt me, never said bad to me. What Harvey done was wrong. But tellin you don't put me on the nigger side. I'm still on the white man side, John. I'm still standin with the white. God help me if you believe somethin else about me.

When we profess our faith at Mass in the Creed, we publicly stand before the whole congregation and Almighty God and plant the flag with Jesus. We solemnly declare that we will strive not to live like the rest of the world, but to give our wholehearted allegiance to the Lord: "I believe in one God...

A foe to God was never true friend to man

A uniform does not show that you are a patriot and nor prove that until you do it with your practice.

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. ( Get Out or Get in Line , 1928)

One can define this virtue," he wrote, "as love of the laws and of the homeland [patrie].

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

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I am not staying with the murderer," she said, her words muffled by his jacket. "I am not staying with the victim Abel Tannatek or the culprit Abel Tannatek. I am staying with the storyteller.

A person who supports politicians or any political party for merely personal gain is a sycophant; but the people who staunchly support them without knowing them personally as well as their true hidden intention and getting eventually nothing as own profits or benefits are certified stupid.

Changing political party appears as shifting to another room under the single roof.

The best way to know the loyalty of a person who is vouching support to a politician is to stop giving him the fund with which he flies, drives, dines and enjoys all day and night party.