"Between 1525 and 1800 more than two hundred decrees were issued by various European governments denouncing the Anabaptists. These denunciations were often based on the Anabaptist position that conscious adult believers should be baptized and not unknowing infants. But they were also denounced for their refusal to bear arms. Like the early Christians, their refusal extended to any participation in the state. They also refused to swear oaths, including oaths of allegiance, a stand that can be traced at least as far back as the Cathars. In the Middle Ages oaths had been essential to the warrior code, and rejecting them was rejecting war. Today oaths seem less important, and most contemporaries never swear an oath. But Americans are still required as young children to pledge allegiance to the flag, one of the first steps in conditioning young Americans for war. This assertion can be easily tested: denounced the saying of the pledge of allegiance and see if the people who are outraged are not the same people who promote war."

"In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath."

"I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil."

"Before Utu, I will not change my word."

"There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the people, but there is so manifest an appropriateness in the public induction to office of the chief executive officer of the nation that from the beginning of the Government the people, to whose service the official oath consecrates the officer, have been called to witness the solemn ceremonial. The oath taken in the presence of the people becomes a mutual covenant. The officer covenants to serve the whole body of the people by a faithful execution of the laws, so that they may be the unfailing defense and security of those who respect and observe them, and that neither wealth, station, nor the power of combinations shall be able to evade their just penalties or to wrest them from a beneficent public purpose to serve the ends of cruelty or selfishness."

"I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president."

"ἡ γλῶσσ᾽ ὀμώμοχ᾽, ἡ δὲ φρὴν ἀνώμοτος"

"They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt."

"In the name of all the competitors I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams."

"Juravi lingua, mentem injuratam gero."

"I will take my corporal oath on it."

"He that imposes an Oath makes it, Not he that for Convenience takes it. Then how can any man be said To break an oath he never made?"

"Oaths were not purpos'd, more than law, To keep the Good and Just in awe, But to confine the Bad and Sinful, Like mortal cattle in a penfold."

"I will not disgrace my sacred arms Nor desert my comrade, wherever I am stationed. I will fight for things sacred And things profane. And both alone and with all to help me. I will transmit my fatherland not diminished But greater and better than before. I will obey the ruling magistrates Who rule reasonably And I will observe the established laws And whatever laws in the future May be reasonably established. any person seek to overturn the laws, Both alone and with all to help me, I will oppose him. I will honor the religion of my fathers. call to witness the Gods … The borders of my fatherland, The wheat, the barley, the vines, And the trees of the olive and the fig."

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

"In calling his two sons by the names of Gershom and Eliezer, Moses, like Joseph and other righteous men, intended to have the fact of God's help constantly before him. Since his sons would be with him, and he would often address them or call them by name, he would remember his gratitude to God."

"Any one may take upon him what surname, and as many surnames as he pleases without an Act of Parliament."

"Nihil facit error nominis owm de corpore constat: An error as to a name is nothing when there is certainty as to the person."

"Where a man calls himself by a name which is not his name, he is telling a falsehood."

"Neither holy, nor Roman, nor Empire."

"Charmed with the foolish whistling of a name."

"O, Sophonisba, Sophonisba, O!"

"No sound is breathed so potent to coerce And to conciliate, as their names who dare For that sweet mother-land which gave them birth Nobly to do, nobly to die."

"The myrtle that grows among thorns is a myrtle still."

"And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name."

"I'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me spade."

"And last of all an Admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name,— A name which you all know by sight very well; But which no one can speak, and no one can spell."

"Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters; Ye may not wash it out."

"I am thankful that my name is obnoxious to no pun."

"I do beseech you— Chiefly, that I might set it in my prayers— What is your name?"

"What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet."

"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed."

"I cannot tell what the dickens his name is."

"When we were happy we had other names."

"And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names."

"Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words— * * ** * ** * ** * ** * ** * * Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered."

"I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought."

"The one so like the other As could not be distinguish'd but by names."

"Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung."

"My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor!"

"I am the last of my race. My name ends with me."

"Ich bin der Letzte meines Stamms; mein Name Endet mit mir."

"Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tongue."