Quotes About Allegiance

I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.

What will you NOT do for your Savior?

India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal.

Until such time as someone tells me different I will remain loyal to the cause.

Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.

If you don't know one thing about Kid Rock it's that he's loyal. His band has been together for a long time, he stands by his friends, and the guy still lives in his home state of Michigan.

If you are my friend,you are down for me at all times,not just when it's convenient.

I don't throw people under the bus. When I stick by a guy - I may not agree with him all the time, but I sure don't throw him under the bus.

out whose side they were on. Even Fat

She sometimes thought of herself as a sort of extraterritorial patriot: given a country, she would be proud, and given a uniform, she would serve. Instead, she was given Russia, which filled her heart with despair and her mind with the idea that life was not worth living.

Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him; take him for your prophet, and hear him; take him for your priest, to make atonement for you.

We have followed you, they said, and we shall follow you wherever you go. If danger threatens you, we shall face it also. If it be death, we shall die with you. You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.

I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

A sentence in Atlas Shrugged that is applicable to all rational people, but particularly to writers, is the one where I say that Dagny "regarded language as a tool of honor, always to be used as if one were under oath—an oath of allegiance to reality." In regard to words, this should be the motto of every writer.

What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

the substance of patriotism mattered far more than the symbol.

The substance of patriotism matters more than the symbols.

She climbs down and pours half an inch of Jim Beam into a Bengals mug that came free with a tank of gas. Alice would just as soon get her teeth cleaned as watch the Bengals. That's the price of staying around when your heart's not in it, she thinks. You get to be cheerleader for a sport you never chose.

All knowledge measured, first and last, by one's allegiance to the teacher.

They are all for the great captain, while he indentures them and eats their souls and property. Somehow he gets them to side against their own.

Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their number-one friend.

pricking ourselves, sharing our blood to promise brotherhood. As if it's only by hurting yourself that you can be true.

The essence of samurai is not just service, but loyalty to his master, to a cause greater than himself.

approximately half the Roman Empire claimed allegiance to the Christian faith by about 400 CE. The empire as a whole is thought to have comprised some sixty million people at the time