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Quotes About Allegiance

Any time you throw your weight behind a political party that controls two thirds of the government and that party can't keep the promise that it made to you during election time and you're dumb enough to walk around continuing to identify yourself with that party, you're not only a chump but you're a traitor to your race.
~ Malcolm X
Being Christian doesn't mean being anti-American, but it does mean that Christian identity and loyalty matter more than national identity and loyalty. When there is a conflict, Jesus is Lord.
~ Marcus J. Borg
Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.
~ Pablo Escobar
Show me where you spend your time, money and energy and I'll tell you what you worship.
~ John Wimber
Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time
~ Harry S. Truman
I wasn't the leader of any gang. I was for Billy all the time.
~ Billy the Kid
Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?
~ David Letterman
This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.
~ Eugene McCarthy
One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.
~ Frances Parkinson Keyes
But Lord Raid and Lord Sifer had an unpleasant habit of reminding Benden Weyr riders of their loyalty at every opportunity. Gratitude is an ill-fitting tunic that can chafe and smell if worn too long. Lord
~ Anne McCaffrey
My family, my country—right or wrong.' It is the ultimate betrayal of God.
~ Anne Perry
SEC. 6. All free white persons who shall emigrate to this republic, and who shall, after a residence of six months, make oath before some competent authority that he intends to reside permanently in the same, and shall swear to support this Constitution, and that he will bear true allegiance
~ Annette Gordon-Reed
You don't owe your country nothing," I remember him telling me. "You owe it something, and depending on what happens, you might owe it your life.
~ Sebastian Junger
It makes absolutely no sense to make sacrifices for a group that, itself, isn't willing to make sacrifices for you.
~ Sebastian Junger
You don't owe your country nothing," I remember him telling me. "You owe it something, and depending on what happens, you might owe it your life." The way my father put it completely turned the issue around for me: suddenly the draft card wasn't so much an obligation as a chance to be part of something bigger than myself.
~ Sebastian Junger
It makes absolutely no sense to make sacrifices for a group that, itself, isn't willing to make sacrifices for you. That is the position American soldiers have been in for the past decade and a half. There
~ Sebastian Junger
the problem is never with the faith, but with the faithful.
~ Shashi Tharoor
in the binary terms made famous by George W. Bush: 'Are you with us or against us?
~ Shashi Tharoor
Talk about burning the flag and he gets all choked up. Funny, so many of these guys think the country stands for the flag instead of the other way around.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
You dare to stand with my enemy? (Stryker) Against you, Father, I'd stand with Mickey Mouse. (Urian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
But, Bubba? Aren't you and Mark friends? (Nick) Ah, hell no. Mark's not my friend, he's my minion. (Bubba)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Are you sure Savitar is on our side? Nick I can hear you, kid, Savitar growled And yeah. I'm on your side. Just checking. My other former allies turned out to be myths.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Lady, right now you could tell me to throw myself under a bus to make you happy, and I'd oblige you. (Xypher)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And you chose to fight for Artemis instead, what kind of stupid are you? (Jeff)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon