#oath

It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#oath #obey #military

Listen to me. I am leaving, but I am living. I will not be gone from you entirely, Will. When you fight now, I will be still by you. When you walk in the world, I will be the light at your side, the ground steady under your feet, the force that drives the sword in your hand. We are bound, beyond the oath. The Marks did not change that. The oath did not change that. It merely gave words to something that existed already. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#oath #change

Become a part of me, as I become a part of you. And ever after, I promise myself to thee. Each day we share, I shall be honest, good, and true. If this you seek, heed my Call. From this moment on, there is no other for me but you ↗

— Shayla Black

#love #mate #oath #love

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#concept #essential #i #made #oath

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her. ↗

— Sam Houston

#bloodshed #bring #civil #constitution #her

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#analysis #believe #breach #cannot #continue

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one? ↗

— Howard Fineman

#by the time #did #like #moment #oath

Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#far #i #like #loathe #me

How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God. ↗

— George Gillespie

#had #how #men #name #oath

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame. ↗

— Michael C. Hall

#cornered #homosexual #i #market #morticians