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Oaths Quotations

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

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

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

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

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
Sophocles

Oaths are the fossils of piety.
George Santayana

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

A liar is always lavish of oaths.
Pierre Corneille

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

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