Quotes About Allegiance

Love can do much, but duty more.

The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.

What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.

Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.

Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought.

You love him as a falcon loves his master who binds and blinds it.

By Heaven, I love thee better than myself

The real test on the path of love is are you willing to give up everything for your love?

What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!

I love the Twins, ... I bleed the Twins. That's all I know. If I go anywhere else, I'd be a foreigner.

Only if you sacrifice for a cause will you love it.

To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.

England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go.

Every man has two counties--his own and America.

I too have known the inward disturbance of exile, The great peril of being at home nowhere, The dispersed center, the dividing love; Not here, nor there, leaping across ocean, Turning, returning to each strong allegiance; American, but with this difference - parting.

Everybody is always willing to throw someone else's country to the dogs.

My father thinks that we should forget the old gods. He says that a country with two sets of gods is like a country with two kings. No one knows which to be loyal to.

For a moment Costis could see, not so much what was hidden but that there were things hidden that the king did not choose to reveal. Things that were not for Costis to see. There was no understanding him, but Costis knew he would march into hell for this fathomless king.

This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust. If women and girls in patriarchal culture are taught to see every male, including the males with whom we are intimate, as potential rapists and murderers, then we cannot offer them our trust, and without trust there is no love.

Nothing indicts female allegiance to patriarchy more than the willingness to behave as though the problems created by cultural investment in sexist thinking about the nature of male and female roles can be solved by women's working harder.

This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or lesser degrees, and men feel the loss. Ultimately, one of the emotional costs of allegiance to patriarchy is to be seen as unworthy of trust.