Quotes About Allegiance

As long as we are on this earth, we possess dual citizenship. On one hand we owe allegiance to our nation and are called to be good citizens. But we are also citizens of the kingdom of God. Our supreme loyalty is to Him.

We must understand what the word believe implies. It means "commit" and "surrender.

There are two masters, and you have to choose which master you are going to serve.

There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me...We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

The Pledge of Allegiance, ultimately, is coffee for elementary school students. "...And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. F***, I'm at SCHOOL! Can we say it again? I need a second cup."

Along the way my loyalties had shifted without my even realizing it.

If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

My son, give me thine heart...

The titular counselor buttoned up his collar and replied seriously: "If you live in a state, you should either ch-cherish it or leave it—anything else is either parasitism or mere lackeys' gossip.

On my honor, I will do my best To do my duty To God and my country

Your fellow soldiers had to know that you had their back. That was rule one, lesson one, and above all else. If the enemy goes after you, he goes after me too.

Got the suit, with the American flag in the lapel. Don't join the military; don't help out the little guy; don't take in your tired, your poor, your huddled masses—but if you wear a little flag, you're a patriot.

Two of our biggest delusions are that "loyalty" and "keeping promises" are admirable qualities. They are not. They are oft an excuse to do the wrong thing and to protect the wrong person because you are supposed to be "a man of your word" or have a bond with or allegiance to someone who deserves neither. Loyalty is too often used as a replacement for morality or ethics

The time your friends need you is when they're wrong... They don't need you when they're right.

Ancient man obeyed the laws because they were of divine, not human origin. If a city was defeated in war, that meant its gods were defeated by stronger gods, and men might, without any sense of disloyalty, transfer their allegiance to the gods of their masters. Here the Jews were different in that by holding that their God alone was God, they would not admit that their God could be defeated—nor that they could have any just reason to be faithless to him.

We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

Everybody wants to protect their own tribe, whether they are right or wrong.

If someone says to me, 'You are a cheat, and Pakistan is doing wrong things,' my first priority is to my country.

I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee.

I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.

I can't be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I'm a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can't ever root for the Dodgers.

Around New York, I used to hear that expression, 'Once a Dodger, always a Dodger.' But how about, 'Once a Yankee, always a Yankee?' There never was anything better than that. You never get over it.