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“It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.”

Matter Age Faces Political Issues Society Refuse Stakes Consistently Allegiance Unimportant Malady

Book:Alone

Source: Alone

“I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.”

Turns Masters Bounds Storm Loyalty Shelter Swear Allegiance

Author:Horace

“All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“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?”

Age President Imagine Lips Bunch This Day Crap Pledge Allegiance Moron Pledge Of Allegiance

Author:John Updike

“The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.”

People Humanity Turns Water Animal Flow Wilderness Allegiance Wild Animal

Author:Mencius

“Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.”

Moving Time Behinds Forever Leaving Fishing Allegiance Haste

Book:The cart and the horse

Source: The cart and the horse

“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.”

Years States America United United States Taken Citizens Fundamentals Statements Immigrants Vow Solemn Allegiance Oath Renunciation

Author:Jim Ryun

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

Pledge Allegiance Pledge Of Allegiance

Author:Emanuel Cleaver

“I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.”

Feels Country Strong Allegiance

Author:Rick Allen

“Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe - has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance ... It is no longer possible, as it was in the time of Gibbon, to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis on which it rests ... Christianity ... is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.”

“Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.”

Politics Neglect Flags Pledge Allegiance

Author:Tupac Shakur

“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.”

Kind America Forget Behinds Liberty Economic Constitution Institutions Complaining Vain Flags Blindness Dissent Allegiance

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt