Quotes about Allegiance
The more loyalty oaths a person signed, the more loyal he was; to Captain Black it was as simple as that, and he had Corporal Kolodny sign hundreds with his name each day so that he could always prove he was more loyal than anyone else.
— Joseph Heller
The important thing is to keep them pledging," he explained to his cohorts. "It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.
— Joseph Heller
A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.
— Wendell Berry
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— Rachel Hauck
A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.
— Mark Twain
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
— Mark Twain
What is God looking for? He is looking for men and women whose hearts are completely His - completely.
— Charles Swindoll
He's my man, he was great.
— George W. Bush
That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
— George Washington
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I don't believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
— Andrew Carnegie