Oath Quotes - Page 13

• It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.

  Rick Riordan

  Rivers, Promise, Needs

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• Which do you hate more: breaking your word or dying?" "I don't know. I've never done either.

  Gerald Morris

  Hate, Dying, Done

  Gerald Morris (2008). “The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hermes's shoulders sagged. "They'll try, Percy. Oh, we'll all try to keep our promise. And maybe for a while things will get better. But we gods have never been good at keeping oaths. You were born because of a broken promise, eh? Eventually we'll become forgetful. We always do." "You can change." Hermes laughed. "After three thousand years, you think the gods can change their nature?" "Yeah," I said. "I do.

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Years, Broken

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.256, Penguin UK

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• You swore to stay with me,” he said. “When we made our oath, as parabatai. Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.” “We are two people,” said Jem. “Two people with a covenant between us.” Will knew he sounded like a child, but he could not help it. “A covenant that says you must not go where I cannot come with you.” “Until death,” Jem replied gently. “Those are the words of the oath. ‘Until aught but death part thee and me.’ Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Thinking, Two

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• He understood how dangerous oaths could be. But Leo didn't care. "I'm coming back for you, Calypso," he said to the night wind. "I swear it on the River Styx.

  Rick Riordan

  Night, Wind, Rivers

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• I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Taken, Heart, Communism

  "'He was a symbol': Eldridge Cleaver dies at 62". www.cnn.com. May 1, 1998.

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• Now, I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books... Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own... Believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I promise you. Not just on immigration reform. But that's not how - that's not how our system works. That's not how our democracy functions. Thats not how our Constitution is written.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Book, Law

  President Barack Obama's remarks to the National Council of La Raza, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 25, 2011.

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• I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to "wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water"... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.

  Sarah Vowell

  Drinking, Water, Imagination

  "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, www.cc.com. February 21, 2006.

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• Go out there and swear to this world your oath, not with your words, but with what you do. Not with your hand over your heart, but with your hand outstretched to a world that desperately needs your hand, your help, your insights, your creativity, your honor, your courage. It needs you.

  Cory Booker

  Motivational, Courage, Heart

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Feb 04, 2016

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• Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the universal human right to self defense, in accordance with the Supreme Court case, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the statutes under which I am being charged are unconstitutional and thus null and void, and on behalf of all freedom loving Americans, I plead not guilty.

  Adam Kokesh

  Marine, Self, United States

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• When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group - ‘We the people’.

  Ronald Reagan

  Loyalty, Oath Of Office, People

  Economic Recovery Address to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered day 28 April 1981

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• My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one I’ve had since the day I swore an oath on the steps of this Capitol — to do what I believe is best for America.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Years, Two

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Long Ago, People, Secret

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• I do feel ashamed of having participated to the slightest even as a tool in those dark days. But I was obliged to serve the state to which I had taken an oath. It was a tragic fate.

  Walther Funk

  Taken, Fate, Dark

  "The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, Random House, p. 85 (To Leon Goldensohn, April 14, 1946), 2010.

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• Daughters aren’t to be independent. They’re not to act outside the scope 
of their father. As long as they’re under the authority of their fathers, fathers have the ability to nullify or not the oaths and the vows. Daughters can’t just go out 
independently and say, ‘I’m going to marry whoever I want.’ No. The father has 
the ability to say, ‘No, I’m sorry, that has to be approved by me.’

  Doug Phillips

  Daughter, Sorry, Father

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• The Mayor, Aldermen and Councilors of the City of Nauvoo, IL, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that they will support the Constitution of the United States, and of this State and that they will well and truly perform the duties of their offices to the best of their skill and abilities.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, Cities, America

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• As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more sacred, because they are bound, on the conscience by the religious sanctions of an oath. As metes and bounds of government, they transcend all other land-marks, because every public usurpation is an encroachment on the private right, not of one, but of all.

  James Madison

  Religious, Land, Government

  James Madison (1906). “The Writings of James Madison: 1790-1802”

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• The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Law, Force

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• When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office.

  William J. Clinton

  Oath Of Office, January, Idealistic

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2632, Best Books on

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• "On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Character, Boys, Honor

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• When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

  Anthony Holden

  Taken, Men, Umpires

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• The health establishment is a blood brotherhood known by the company it keeps, and these moguls need no oath or ritual as they work hand in glove with and for each other - if medicine benefits in the process, all to the good.

  Edgar Berman

  Dark, Medicine, Blood

  Edgar Berman (1976). “The solid gold stethoscope”

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• I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic Oath. I want to see people use safe, practical medicines.

  Chris Kilham

  Medicine, People, Suffering

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• To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

  B. F. Skinner

  Loyalty, Citizens, May

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• As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Thinking, Speak

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