Allegiance

About Allegiance

“My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.”
— Edward Abbey, in Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989 (1994) p. 92
“It's easy to be loyal to those you love.”
— Christianna Brand, Green for Danger (1944), Ch. 10.2
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
— Nathan Hale, as quoted in Captain Nathan Hale (1755 - 1776) by Rev. Edward Everett Hale
“Keeping faith with the faithless is foolish.”
— Elizabeth Moon, Mercenary’s Honor, in John Joseph Adams (ed.) Operation Arcana (2015), p. 53
“To put it in rude, plain, unpalatable words — true patriotism, real patriotism: loyalty not to a Family and a Fiction, but a loyalty to the Nation itself!”
— Mark Twain, (1905), included in Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays, 1891-1910 (1992) ed. Louis J. Budd
“Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.”
— Woodrow Wilson, address on American Spirit, Washington (13 July 1916)

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