Quotes about Allegiance to Country

Stompin' Tom Connors

If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.

Henry Cabot Lodge

I have never had but one allegiance; I can not divide it now. I have never loved but one flag, and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league.

Announcing his opposition to the covenant of a League of Nations:

Granit Xhaka

I have a good relationship with the Albanian fans. But when you are called a traitor - that is such a harsh word. Most of the Albanian fans respect me. But 'traitor' is unacceptable considering the background of my family.

Henry Cabot Lodge

My first allegiance must stay where it has always been, to the people of the United States, my own people.

Defending his opposition to a League of Nations. He was instrumental in preventing the United States from joining the League of Nations which President Wilson had worked so hard to create. The Senate never ratified the treaty which Wilson had signed.

Eugene McCarthy

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

Martin Heidegger

A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.

Jean Giraudoux

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

Julius Rosenberg

I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times.

Walter Lippmann

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

Australia

I honour my God; I serve my Queen; I salute my flag

At the beginning of the 21st century, the pledge became a matter of controversy. The Queen was the Queen of England, and many Australians were secular and objected to the reference to God. Only the flag remained uncontroversial.

Jay Leno

Did you see Walker's father? 'My son loves America.' Yeah, like O.J. loved his wife.

Samuel M. Ralston

There are two kinds of people in America: Patriots and Traitors

He was an ally of the Ku Klux Klan and shared their vision of a binary moral and ethical world. There was no room for critics of the war effort.

Robert Emmet

Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen.

Rabindranath Tagore

I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

Henry Vaughan

To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.

Allegiance to Country Quotes