Quotes About Allegiance

As for Toussaint, she venerated Jean Valjean and liked everything he did. One

patriotism is not enough.

Why did I follow her? If you must know, Sir, it was easy. Pound for pound, Puss-in-Boots was the best commander I ever served under.

my credo, "Oftimes it seems to me, 'patriotic' rhymes with 'idiotic,

My whole life has been lived in-between -- in between languages, in between cultures, in between countries ... My life resisted the kind of easy categories that the head of state had outlined for everyone. Surely, I told myself, a nation was a community, with views that are by necessity different, often divergent, and occasionally contradictory. Surely, true allegiance meant speaking up when something wasn't right.

He began it," Cecily said, jerking her chin at Will, though she knew it was pointless. Jem, Will's parabatai, treated her with the distant sweet kindness reserved for the little sisters of one's friends, but he would always side with Will. Kindly, but firmly, he put Will above everything else in the world. Well, nearly everything.

I don't care what you do. As long as you know you belong to me.

Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?

Everything i do is for the pleasure of Allah.

In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.

I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom.

The Gift-Bringer has ceased to be Dutch or Catholic or, indeed, of any particular ethnic or religious affiliation, owing no allegiance to Europe, the pope, or the past.

customer loyalties

Patriotism ruins history.

Choose a companion of your own faith. You are much more likely to be happy. Choose a companion you can always honor, you can always respect, one who will complement you in your own life, one to whom you can give your entire heart, your entire love, your entire allegiance, your entire loyalty.

Service always outranked wealth; loyalty always outranked payments.

There will never be rebellion here. In Richmond and Williamsburg there has been talk. Jefferson isn't reliable and Patrick Henry is a born troublemaker of no substance whatever. No, sir, Virginia stands fast with the king.

It's Elvish, Tummeler repeated. It says, basically, 'Declare allegiance, and be welcomed. Well, doesn't it perhaps mean that the magic word that opens the door is 'allegiance'? Said Jack. In Elvish? That's a stupid idea, said John. Then anyone who spoke Elvish could get in.

It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.

Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

The romance of treason never occurred to us for the brutally simple reason that you can't betray a country you don't have. (Think about it).

In the first place, as the homeless wanderers of the twentieth century prove, the question of nationality no longer necessarily involves the question of allegiance. Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

Tis an ancient and sacred tie that binds man to his nation; neither can it be severed without infamy.

When I was a kid I was the black sheep of the family because all my uncles and cousins were big Inter fans while I've always been Juve. In fact when I'm injured or suspended I'll be in the stands behind the goal when we're playing - in with the fans where I'm happiest.