Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth. Not the biased truth, Not the liest truth, But the highest truth."
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Allegiance
23 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer."
Seamus Costello
Politician
"I owe my allegiance to the working class."
James A. Baldwin
Writer
"Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal."
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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."
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"My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history."
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"I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country."
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"True allegiance is only given willingly."
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