Pledge Quotes - Page 8

• I am confident that just as a America`s commitment to the transatlantic alliance has endured for seven decades, whether it`s been under a Democratic or Republican administration, that commitment will continue including our pledge and our treaty obligation to defend every ally.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Commitment, America, Allies

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• President Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're not going to - we're not going to advance NATO into East Germany, if you allow the unification of Germany." Where is that pledge? Where is the logic behind a military alliance, devised in the time of communism, before the Berlin Wall fell, now being in the Ukraine, in Poland, in Estonia, in Latvia and Lithuania? I don't understand.

  Rashid Khalidi

  Wall, Military, Ukraine

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• It is hard to imagine, but in a Maryland school, a 13- year old girl was arrested for refusing to say the pledge of allegiance. There is more at work than stupidity and a flight from responsibility on the part of educators, parents and politicians who maintain these laws, there is also the growing sentiment that young people constitute a threat to adults and that the only way to deal with them is to subject them to mind-crushing punishment.

  Henry Giroux

  Crush, Girl, School

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Little kids sing a song called "America the Beautiful." They sing a song called "This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land." To me, those songs are not just nice little ditties. They are marching orders. They are commandments that we must protect America's beauty from the clear-cutters, the strip-miners, the oil spillers. They are pledges we have made. They are promises to keep.

  Van Jones

  Beautiful, Song, Nice

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• The Founding Fathers believed that our Creator gave us certain inalienable rights. The Pledge of Allegiance simply reinforces the beliefs that led to the birth of our great nation. It is an oath of our fidelity to our country, and I am disappointed that the [9th Circuit] Court chose to rule against this American treasure.

  Dennis Hastert

  Country, Father, Rights

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• China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.

  Dalai Lama

  Troops, Unions, Accepting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask nominees to pledge to rule on issues in a particular way.

  Chuck Grassley

  Issues, Way, Ruling

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Playing along with Guyland may be the only way an individual woman might believe she has a chance at a social life or a relationship. Sometimes it gets pretty crazy, like a sorority requiring that all the pledges sleep with the members of the "brother" fraternity.

  Michael Kimmel

  Brother, Crazy, Believe

  "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Q&A, www.today.com. August 3, 2010.

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• So when people tell you, oh, you can't have the Ten Commandments on public property, they're just wrong. It's historically false. It's not true. Now, you can decide to invent a new America in which you shouldn't say "one nation under God" as part of the pledge because, after all, you will offend three atheists. But that's not the America you inherited. That's a different country. And I think it's a weaker country and I think it's a country that has no roots in terms of where its rights come from.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Atheist, Thinking

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• I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance to the flag, I don't think I would do it. I've always felt that I lived in a country...where if I wanted to worship God as a Baptist, I could do so. If I were an atheist, I could be one. If I wanted to be a Catholic but was born a Jew, there's no condemnation...from a government authority.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Atheist, Thinking

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• For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Causes, Influence, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.212, Columbia University Press

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• When I think about what makes Canada great, fresh water is right at the top of the list. We have over two million lakes in this country and more than enough people who are willing to mess with them. My Canada includes weird scientists who are devoted to keeping our water clean. 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

  Country, Giving Up, Thinking

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• All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts. All is more or less applicable for the purpose of a general pledge of exchange, in proportion as it is less susceptible of decay or alteration in quantity or quality.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Quality, Use, Decay

  "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 39), 1766.

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• If any issue should unite liberals and conservatives, anyone who cares about the integrity of human achievement or respect for human accomplishment, may we not all pledge to avoid the silly censoring that can lead to a codification of Orwell's Newspeak? Consider John Milton's reasons for why good arguments are often lost: 'For want of words, no doubt, or lack of breath!'

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Integrity, Silly, Issues

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• Though youth be past, and beauty fled,
  The constant heart its pledge redeems,
  Like box, that guards the flowerless bed
  And brighter from the contrast seems.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Heart, Past, Bed

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.82

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• I care more about my country than I do about a 20-year-old pledge.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Country, Years, Important

  "Top Republican Senator ditches Norquist anti-tax pledge", www.foxnews.com. November 23, 2012.

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• With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate.

  Barack Obama

  Important, Way, Like You

  President Obama's news conference on the Affordable Care Act, www.washingtonpost.com. November 14, 2013.

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• Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Men, Hands, Interesting

  Discours sur le Style (1753)

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• Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? ... We promised to make peace with Germany only in conjunction with the Allies; but we brought forward a separate peace, demanding for ourselves all the advantages of the Treaty of Versailles but rejecting all the responsibilities embodied in the Treaty. It was America's President who induced Europe to form a League of Nations; and then America was the first country that refused to joint it.... If these are not the symptoms of national decadency, what are they?

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, Responsibility, America

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• Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spring, Blood, Years

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• The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and non-existing bright hearths, smiling wives, pretty caps and aprons. The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which it was given, and never failed to produce another and a worse. Here the care created an epidemic of forgery, falsehood and perjury.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Lying, Epidemics, Wife

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• It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Eye, Common Sense

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.103, Xist Publishing

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• We said that pledges made in the peace process need to be fulfilled as soon as possible.

  Ahmet Davutoglu

  Peace, Needs, Made

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• If I'm the nominee, I will pledge I will not run as an independent. I want to win as the Republican. I want to run as the Republican nominee.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Independent, Winning

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Both candidates in this election [2004] pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference - the great difference is that I intend to win it first.

  John McCain

  War, Home, Winning

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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