Top 414 Pledge Quotes & Sayings

The Giving Pledge is not meant to be prescriptive or restrictive.

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.'

I want to start by making a pledge, a pledge to those from the Windrush generation who have been in this country for decades and yet have struggled to navigate through the immigration system: This never should have been the case, and I will do whatever it takes to put it right.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.

[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.

Diet Coke with lemon - didn't that used to be called Pledge?

I stand proud, but I never said my pledge allegiance

I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

...stand with me today and pledge to work for an America that doesn't ignore those in need and lifts up those who wish to succeed. Pledge to hold your government accountable for ignoring the suffering of so many for far too long. And pledge to do your part to build the America that we have dreamed of - where the bright light of opportunity shines on every person - an America where the family you are born into, or the color of your skin, will never control your destiny.

The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.

The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

I'm no cook. When I want lemon on chicken, I spray it with Pledge.

Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.

I pledge that I have no intention of raising taxes in my second term.

Variety is the pledge that matter makes to living things.

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

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

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

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

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.

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

Pledge to ask if there is a gun where your kid visits or plays. Pledge to protect your children from harm's way.

I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close.

I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it.

I would like to believe I would not have behaved differently had I not made a term limits pledge, but my own frailties and human desire for prestige and position tell me my term limits pledge did make a difference in how I approached my job in Congress.

They said, we have education, but what about jobs? So I started telling them, you should be taking a pledge, and the pledge should be: 'I'm not a job seeker; I'm a job giver.' Prepare yourself to be a job giver.

If there's one thing that unifies the nation in times of perpetual war it's the pledge to 'Support the Troops.'

GOP candidates routinely sign a pledge never, ever to raise taxes. Democratic candidates aren't even asked to sign a parallel pledge never, ever to cut entitlements.

I pledge to you I'm not a talker. I'm a doer.

We pledge to you in our name... that we will resist the invaders.

Pledge allegiance to the struggle.

Once you pledge, don't hedge.

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.

Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.

I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

When we make a pledge, we mean it. We keep our word, and what we begin, we will finish.

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

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

A lot of people get elected to Congress, and sometimes a part of their pledge is a term-limit pledge. There's no accountability.

When active duty ends, we have an obligation to uphold our own pledge: a pledge to ensure that every veteran receives the care and benefits they deserve.

I pledge to give all there is of myself.

I pledge to dedicate everything I have to working for Japan and for the people.

I pledge that the personal safety of Israeli citizens will not be futile.

People who won't sign the taxpayer protection pledge, people who won't sign the property-rights protection pledge, people who won't sign the state-sovereignty pledge, who won't put their beliefs in writing, who won't endorse the Freedom Agenda, we should be asking them some very very hard questions. Very hard questions. Because you know what, they get away with it. We hear what goes on in closed doors in Olympia. We hear them say the opposite of what they say publicly.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.

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

I pledge to be president for all Americans.

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

Hillary Clinton asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge. It reads: "I'm with her." I choose to recite a different pledge. My pledge reads: "I'm with you, the American people."

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better - to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate.

I hope that by joining The Giving Pledge, it will encourage others to do the same.

The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the past. His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac. Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo-and today there can be no status quo.

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