Pledge Quotes

• I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Years, Payroll Tax

  Speech in Dover, New Hampshire, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 12, 2008.

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• In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Justice For All, Liberty, Owners

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• Together, we must renew our continued commitment to serve and pledge to bring a positive change to our communities.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Commitment, Community, Together

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• Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.

  Deborah Day

  Self Esteem, Self Love, Energy

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• I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the best of my ability.

  Heinz Fischer

  Country, Law, Constitution

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• When we make a pledge, we mean it. We keep our word, and what we begin, we will finish.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Our Words

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• The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government.

  Jay Sekulow

  Country, Government, Facts

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• Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

  Ben Jonson

  Romantic, Food, Wine

  "To Celia" l. 1 (1616).

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• I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  People, World War 2, Deals

  Speech to Democratic National Convention accepting presidential nomination, Chicago, Ill., 2 July 1932. The earliest figurative use of the term new deal that has been found is in a letter from John Rathbone to Nicholas Biddle, 18 Jan. 1834, referring to "a new bank and a New Deal." Roosevelt or his speechwriters may have picked up the phrase from earlier political usages by Mark Twain or Woodrow Wilson. See Twain 40; Woodrow Wilson 4

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• When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

  Rick Mercer

  Giving Up, Water, Down And

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• Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas.

  Tibullus

  Wind, Sea, Land

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• God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Given, No Hope

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus”, p.1, Editora Dracaena

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• I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

  Dan Quayle

  Christian, Believe, Liberty

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  On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

  Dan Lipinski

  Veterans Day, Military, Home

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

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Allegiance, Pledge Of Allegiance

  Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.

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• I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation

  Carl Sagan

  Rights, Oath Of Office, Wish

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.546, Ballantine Books

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• We pledge to you in our name... that we will resist the invaders.

  Saddam Hussein

  Names, Iraq, Invaders

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• A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Childhood, Ripe, Manhood

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Men, Profound, Action

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1872). “Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles”, p.167

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• You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

  Judith Butler

  Identity, Allegiance, Particular

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• Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Political, Liberty, Principles

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• What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Guilt

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• During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.

  Michele Bachmann

  Faithful, Firsts, Congress

  "Rep. Michele Bachmann Talks Earmarks, Obamacare and Gay Marriage; Sen. Kyl on Debt Talks". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. June 26, 2011.

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• We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.

  Gavin Pretor-Pinney

  Fighting, Thinking, Sky

  Gavin Pretor-Pinney (2007). “The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds”, p.11, Penguin

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• I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth.
  Not the biased truth,
  Not the liest truth,
  But the highest truth.

  Nas

  Rap, Hip Hop, Allegiance

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