Allegiance Quotes

• We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Men, Pledge Of Allegiance

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

  Jay Leno

  Country, Fire, Bird

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• Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

  James Bryce

  Country, Peace, War

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• The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.

  Jim Ryun

  Loyalty, Country, Race

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• Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

  Jesse Ventura

  Loyalty, Choices, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ventura from Sep 23, 2014

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• Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Responsibility

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.442, Simon and Schuster

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• You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

  Judith Butler

  Identity, Particular, Like Yourself

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• You only have one life. And you only have one life of worship. You have one brief opportunity in time to declare your allegiance, to unleash your affection, to exhault something or someone above all else. So don't waste your worship on some little god, squandering your birthright on idols made only with human imagination. Guard your worship. And carefully evaluate all potential takers.

  Louie Giglio

  Opportunity, Idols, Worship You

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• My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

  Edward Abbey

  Love, Loyalty, Spiritual

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.92, Big Earth Publishing

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• It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.

  George Washington

  Causes, Chaos, Natural

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• Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

  David Letterman

  Good Times, Thunderstorm, Bird Flu

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• The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

  Walter Bagehot

  Religious, People, Religion

  'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The Cabinet'

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• There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

  Barack Obama

  Stars, War, Patriotic

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.

  Belle Boyd

  Lying, War, Government

  Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.182

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• a little of the ready reliance on the expert comes from the desire to waive responsibillity, comes from the endless evasion of life instead of an honest facing of it. The expert is to many what the priest is, someone who knows absolutely and can tell us what to do. The king, the priest, the expert, have one after the other had our allegiance, but so far as we put any of them in the place of ourselves, we have not a sound society and neither individual nor general progress.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Kings, Desire, Progress

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• We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  America, People, House

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

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• Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Pledge Of Allegiance, Pledge

  Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.

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• A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God

  Huston Smith

  Believe, Giving, Citizens

  Huston Smith (1959). “The Religions of Man”

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• I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation

  Carl Sagan

  Rights, Oath Of Office, Wish

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.546, Ballantine Books

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• The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.

  Jim Ryun

  Taken, Years, America

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• Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

  John F. Kennedy

  Truth, Science, Tyrants

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• When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

  Mark Twain

  Country, Party, Teaching

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• But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loyalty, Men, America

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.

  Rick Allen

  Country, Strong, Feels

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• We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their allegiance, nothing of great value that they should sacrifice for.

  Tom Tancredo

  Country, Sacrifice, Unique

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 26, 2012.

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