Top 366 Allegiance Quotes & Sayings

I kind of have an allegiance to the city, but I don't love Brooklyn.

It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdrawand stand aloof from it effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with,--the dollar is innocent,--but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance. In fact, I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make what use and get what advantage of her I can, as is usual in such cases.

[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.

Unity is not blind allegiance.

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.

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.

There is one allegiance that unites us all, and that is to America.

Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance to a foreign authority in the person of the Pope, their political and patriotic allegiance must necessarily be suspect.

The only true allegiance a politician has is to his own re-election.

The essence of Christian obedience is not do’s and don’ts but personal allegiance to Jesus.

The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.

As the United States drifts from its Judeo-Christian foundation and as the state becomes ever more pervasive in American life, government could ultimately insist on full allegiance from the people, an allegiance belonging only to God.

I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.

The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

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

We think we have to prove our allegiance to God by being poor. Many years ago, my own psychic development teacher taught me that to be on a spiritual path meant that you needed to be poor, because that was proving your allegiance to God. So growing up with that kind of teaching from her was a real struggle for me, also.

There needs to be an allegiance to the United States and what this country stands for.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man...not to democracy, or blood; it's to a King & a Kingdom

The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical demands of the universe. As Christians we owe our allegiance to God and His will, rather than to man and his folkways

I owe my allegiance to the working class.

Too close and unthinking an allegiance to Washington has sometimes got British governments into trouble.

The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same.

Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.

The journalist's first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers of news organizations also have a deep allegiance to the public, that allegiance is necessarily alloyed with their concern for their own point of view or for the bottom line.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

Just very practically, pastors need to be careful that while they have a right to call people to absolute allegiance to the Word of God, we don't have the right to call people to absolute allegiance to our programs or every ministry we have at the church.

The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.

Your allegiance is with your spouse; you cannot break that by showing allegiance to your ex-spouse.

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?

All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

Mitt Romney's rally in Mansfield, Ohio, on Monday began the way every political event begins. 'Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and our country's national anthem.' This is always an uncomfortable moment for me. While I sat at my laptop, most of the reporters around me stood and put their hands over their hearts. This time instead of just sitting and working, I tweeted what I was feeling: 'Ari_Shapiro: As a reporter I'm torn about joining in the pledge of allegiance/national anthem at rallies. I'm a rally observer, not a participant.'

Now, I am not caring today, for myself, anything at all about a political party tag. So far as I am concerned, I want to know what the man stands for....When I find out these things, then I know who it is who should receive my support, and I care not what his party tag is....Today, our duty transcends party allegiance; our duty today is allegiance to the Constitution as it was given to us by the Lord.

Without allegiance to the Constitution it doesn't matter one hill of beans which party is in power!

True allegiance is only given willingly.

Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.

We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.

I stand proud, but I never said my pledge allegiance

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.

In most countries, you have a monarch or some other principal person to whom its officers and its military swear their allegiance. Our officials in this country and our military swear allegiance to the Constitution. We say that when we say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.

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

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

Pledge allegiance to the struggle.

Israel has the right to demand full allegiance from all its citizens.

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul.

The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.

The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.

I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.

The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number but they have the right to live in peace, to choose their own way of life and to determine their own allegiance. They way of life is British; their allegiance is to the Crown. It is the wish of the British people and the duty of Her Majesty's Government to do everything that we can to uphold that right. That will be our hope and our endeavour, and, I believe, the resolve, of every Member of this House.

A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.

You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

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

She made a sound of regret. ‘We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,’ she said. ‘Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.’ She placed her head back against his chest and he felt her tears. ‘This is not our time.’ ‘But that will never mean I love you less,’ he said.

Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.