Pledge Quotes - Page 9

• President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?

  John Updike

  Age, President, Lips

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• The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

  Agnes Repplier

  Universality, Customs

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing
  the list so I can milk it.

  Warren Buffett

  Phones, Giving, Way

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• Justice William Brennan stated that the phrase 'under God' in our Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional because it no longer has a religious purpose or meaning.

  Mathew Staver

  Christian, Religious, Justice

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• I figured if I could get really good people who were going to be able to have a big impact in the world over the next decade to come together once a year for ten years and actually sign a pledge to take action themselves, if we did that every year for ten years we could do a lot of good in the world. That's the difference between my meeting and any other. If you don't want to promise to do something, don't come to my meeting, stay home.

  William J. Clinton

  Home, Years, Differences

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Whatever the particular call is, the particular sacrifice God asks you to make, the particular cross He wishes you to embrace, whatever the particular path He wants you to tread, will you rise up, and say in your heart, "Yes, Lord, I accept it; I submit, I yield, I pledge myself to walk in that path, and to follow that Voice, and to trust Thee with the consequences"? Oh! but you say, "I don't know what He will want next." No, we none of us know that, but we know we shall be safe in His hands.

  Catherine Booth

  Heart, Sacrifice, Hands

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• It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Eye, Common Sense

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.103, Xist Publishing

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• Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spring, Blood, Years

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• The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities, is not what the controllers of that credit call "interesting." He borrows with difficulty and upon high terms, and must pledge security out of all proportion to that which his richer rival has to put down.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Issues, Interesting

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.101, TAN Books

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• Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? ... We promised to make peace with Germany only in conjunction with the Allies; but we brought forward a separate peace, demanding for ourselves all the advantages of the Treaty of Versailles but rejecting all the responsibilities embodied in the Treaty. It was America's President who induced Europe to form a League of Nations; and then America was the first country that refused to joint it.... If these are not the symptoms of national decadency, what are they?

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, Responsibility, America

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• With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate.

  Barack Obama

  Important, Way, Like You

  President Obama's news conference on the Affordable Care Act, www.washingtonpost.com. November 14, 2013.

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• Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

  David Limbaugh

  Commitment, America, Optimism

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• I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money.

  David Rubenstein

  Country, Strong, Giving

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• Barack didn't pledge riches, only a life that would be interesting. On that promise he delivered.

  Michelle Obama

  Interesting, Promise, Would Be

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• Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'

  David Satcher

  America, Community, Challenges

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• It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything.

  Shane Leslie

  Lasts, Senility

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• There are no barriers to entries. Think of this as Linux in terms of software. Anyone can have part of the operating system so long as you pledge allegiance to the ideas. Previously, if you wanted to join al Qaeda, you had to travel to an al Qaeda safe haven, probably in northern Pakistan or Afghanistan. Now all you have to do is get a gun, choose a target, and carry out an attack.

  Paul Gigot

  Safe Haven, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.

  James Russell Lowell

  May, Merit, Drink

  James Russell Lowell (1859). “The Biglow papers”, p.111

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• All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts. All is more or less applicable for the purpose of a general pledge of exchange, in proportion as it is less susceptible of decay or alteration in quantity or quality.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Quality, Use, Decay

  "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 39), 1766.

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• We said that pledges made in the peace process need to be fulfilled as soon as possible.

  Ahmet Davutoglu

  Peace, Needs, Made

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• If I'm the nominee, I will pledge I will not run as an independent. I want to win as the Republican. I want to run as the Republican nominee.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Independent, Winning

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! And all for a pledge that was not pledged by me, I have kissed thy crust and eaten sparingly That I might eat again, and met thy sneers With deprecations, and thy blows with tears.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sad, Blow, Tears

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2012). “The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.17, Modern Library

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• A recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Games

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• To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

  Walter Cronkite

  Yield, People, Democracy

  "Final Words: Cronkite's Vietnam Commentary". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 18, 2009.

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• The meeting [in San Antonio of the National Women's Political Caucus] featured a cattle show at which a herd of Democratic candidates- Glenn, Cranston, Mondale, Hart, and Hollings- pantingly pantomined their fidelity to feminism, stopping just short of a pledge to use nuclear weapons against any states that omit to ratify the Equal Right Amendment.

  Daniel Seligman

  Political, Feminism, Use

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