Oath of Office/religious Bodies

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

    “Figure a man’s only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.”
    —Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

    “The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal—that you can gather votes like box tops—is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.”
    —Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965)

    “The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.”
    —Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

    “Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were the occasion for both their pain and their power.”
    —Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)