Bear True Allegiance

Famous quotes containing the words bear, true and/or allegiance:

    “A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
    Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
    Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
    It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)

    “A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)