96 Quotes About Allegiance

To identify as American is akin to pledging allegiance to a corrupt government.

You will never see me pledge allegiance to a corrupt government.

At times it is beneficial for us to renew our pledge to our sovereignty and allegiance to our country while disavowing schizoid polity.

Are you comfortable with pledging allegiance to a government that failed to prepare for a pandemic?

Before you pledge allegiance, you should thoroughly examine your government to see if you are comfortable with doing so.

A bridge has no allegiance to either side.

every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18)

It’s a heavy responsibility, having saved someone’s life. You feel an allegiance because you saved them, but it’s hard to know if you did the right thing.

My whole life has been lived in-between -- in between languages, in between cultures, in between countries ... My life resisted the kind of easy categories that the head of state had outlined for everyone. Surely, I told myself, a nation was a community, with views that are by necessity different, often divergent, and occasionally contradictory. Surely, true allegiance meant speaking up when something wasn't right.