Quotes about Allegiance

The Bedouins say, "We believe." Say: "You do not believe; rather say, 'We surrender,'; for belief has not yet entered your hearts."

Indeed, as some of the Protestant traditions recognize, the symbol of a cross per se can all too readily become a mere token or amulet leading to superstition and magical thinking. Even worse, when detached from its significance, it can and often has become a sign denoting allegiance to a cause that mocks the very One who died in that way — the cross of Constantine, the Crusaders, and the Ku Klux Klan.

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

If I bear the name of another, I have given up my own name and my own independent life.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

Again, if we have any anxiety about our own salvation, we ought to make no peace nor truce with him who is continually laying schemes for its destruction. But such is the character given to Satan in the third chapter of Genesis, where he is seen seducing man from his allegiance to God, that he may both deprive God of his due honour, and plunge man headlong in destruction.

Therefore by the example of Abram, entire self-renunciation is enjoined, that we may live and die to God alone.

Please assure me that you are all Republicans.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

The loyal subject serves not two lords. The chase woman knows no second man.