Oath Quotes

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato

Do no harm.
- from the Hippocratic Oath

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

Never take a solemn oath.
People think you mean it.
- Norman Douglas

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist,
perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.
- Joseph Rotblat

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because
I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
- Jack Steinberger

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the
oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding
over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
- Ronald Reagan

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.
- Eldridge Cleaver

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing:
sporting loyalty.
- Pierre de Coubertin

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
- Solon

Tonight - by taking this solemn oath -
I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago.
- Jane Byrne

When I testified in front of Congress,
I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.
- Rafael Palmeiro

I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona,
and that's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to keep pushing in that direction.
- Jan Brewer

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.'
He said 'Excuse me,
could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'
- Anthony Holden

How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God.
- George Gillespie

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness,
because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath,
and not from baseness of soul.
- Simone Weil

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand.
- Mary Harris Jones

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man,
but the man the oath.
- Aeschylus

Look, if America - if being an American means anything,
it means not having to lie under oath,
not even for the president.
- Linda Tripp

If it was about lying under oath - we actually know
that Clinton certainly was deceptive,
as most people would be about their sex lives -
but,
in fact, he did not lie.
- Paul Begala

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer
who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy,
honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.
- Harry Houdini

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

The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn
vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen.
The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States,
and this allegiance is what unites America.
- Jim Ryun

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath,
does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do.
If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts,
and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.
- Kenneth Starr

Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army,
Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath
to uphold and protect the Constitution against all
enemies foreign and domestic,
and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation.
- Robin Hayes

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded
that the power of an oath derives from the fact that
in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we
make with the implicit expectation that He will hold
us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.
- James L. Buckley

Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author
of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't
have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God.
That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
- Pat Robertson

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

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto,
where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies.
One thing that we insisted on was that they should
take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
- Mangosuthu Buthelezi

As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold
the United States Constitution.
It means something to be an American because we believe in our country,
we believe in our people, and we believe in our constitution.
- Todd Tiahrt

The decision that has to be made was whether it was material,
whether he knew he was lying under oath,
whether he did it willfully.
I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged
with an investigation of this.
- Barbara Olson

As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21
years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship.
Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I
walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it,
if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound,
we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence.
- Simon Greenleaf

A liar is always lavish of oaths.
- Pierre Corneille

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
- Sophocles

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths
guarded by right of nature.
- Aeschylus

Oaths are the fossils of piety.
- George Santayana

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart
in the middle of their cities where they gather to
cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
- Herodotus

Language cannot describe the scene that followed;
the shouts,
oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies,
and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.
- Aeschylus

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
- Samuel Butler

The very word "secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society;
and we are as a people inherently and historically
opposed to secret societies,
to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
- John F. Kennedy

Priests, she insisted, could not sin.
It was a thing impossible.
Everything that they did, and wished,
was of course right.
She hoped I would see the reasonableness and duty of the oaths I was to take,
and be faithful to them.
- Maria Monk

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
- Stephen King

When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
- Jean Cocteau

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar,
but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
- Marcus Fabius Quintilian

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing -
that's the word -
to have a hit single or a hit album.
- Mel Torme

"Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
- Tennessee Williams

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
- Uta Hagen

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
- Aesop

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president,
I'll kill myself.
All we need is another liar...
I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day
for the country if he does.
- Helen Thomas

The heart never grows better by age;
I fear rather worse,
always harder.
A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave
will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
- Lord Chesterfield

I believe I am a person with unusual talents.
I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.
- Joshua Lederberg

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
- Mark Twain

A liar should have a good memory.
- Quintilian

Liar is a strong word, but we are all liars.
Not in the sense of intentionally speaking untruths,
but in the sense of carrying so much historical
and emotional baggage that none of us is believable.
To lie means to speak an untruth,
and virtually everything that comes out of our mouth
is an untruth - an opinion, an assumption,
a point-of-view based on our past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed.
He was a deluded liar.
If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open.
So that's a huge blessing.
- Anne Heche

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make
an effort to deserve the name.
- A. A. Milne

Sir, you have tasted two whole worms;
you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught
fighting a liar in the quad;
you will leave by the next town drain.
- W. A. Spooner

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.
- Edward Furlong

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their
efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of
the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
- Hannah Arendt

Men should pledge themselves to nothing;
for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
- Sophocles

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not,
because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist
they're honest about everything.
- Chuck Klosterman

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
- J. D. Salinger

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though
admittedly the most outrageous liar.
Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
- Henry Miller

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar,
and if you're in television, you're lying because you're
just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.
- John Ritter

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