Oath of Office/religious Bodies

Famous quotes containing the words oath, office, religious and/or bodies:

    “It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    “We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.”
    —Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)

    “The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a colour. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “What has this bugbear Death to frighten man,
    If souls can die, as well as bodies can?”
    —Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)