"Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them."

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You have just taken an oath of allegiance to the United States. Of allegiance to whom? Of allegiance to no one, unless it be God. Certainly not of allegiance to those who temporarily represent this great government. You have taken an oath of allegiance to a great ideal, to a great body of principles, to a great hope of the human race.

— Woodrow Wilson