Quotes About Allegiance

There's no patriotism, that's what it is. And no matriotism, either.

Clevinger was guilty, of course, or he would not have been accused, and since the only way to prove it was to find him guilty, it was their patriotic duty to do so.

The important thing is to keep them pledging," he explained to his cohorts. "It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.

When you are willing to stand alone with God and cease completely giving power to external things; when you no longer give power to the phenomenalistic world, which means to make a world of effect a cause; and when all your allegiance is given to the Spiritual Power within you, realizing it as the only Presence and the only Cause, you will not need any props of any kind.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

We weren't running the Line, Cowboy thinks, for the Northeast. Or for the money. That was what Arkady and the thirdmen never understood, always thinking we could be bought, that we would respond to economic pressure. And that's what the Orbitals don't understand, what their crystal world models can't figure. That we'd have run the Alley for nothing. Because it was a way to be free.

Stood for his country's glory fast,And nail'd her colors to the mast!

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.

I will never deny my King.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. Unlike a person, a corporation does not age. It does not arrive, as most persons finally do, at a realization of the shortness and smallness of human lives; it does not come to see the future as the lifetime of the children and grandchildren of anybody in particular.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

Hence that morganatic bond between the forces of the left and the forces of the right (a director of a big steel company, the co-owner of a great department store, a figure high in the Republican organization, come quickly to mind) which made confusing common cause in exculpating Hiss by defaming Chambers.

It happens so fast, Laina, you don't even realize it's happening. One day, your friends are eating breakfast with you in the canteen, and when it's time for dinner, they're wearing an Imperial uniform.

I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Half the people in that stadium [LSU's Tiger Stadium] can't spell LSU. It doesn't matter. They identify with it.

Victoria Westover and Shari Monetta are true patriots

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

No doubt Confucius, as a person and as represented in the written tradition, is suffering an eclipse in Communist China because he is associated with those classes whose wealth is being proscribed as sops to bait the allegiance of the masses to the new political group. As students of history know, new political groups everywhere and throughout history have always proceeded thus.

I have only to dismount, and be sick, and then I am, as ever, your man.

I do not know whether this man is a traitor or not, but he is an individualist, and in war the two are the same.