His oath, His covenant, and blood, Support me in the whelming flood; When every earthly prop gives way, He then is all my hope and stay.

His oaths are but a dissolute formality of speech and the worst kind of affectation.

Oaths are his graces, wounds his badges, shifts are his practices, and beggary his payments.

The oath has become an imprecation.

Oaths and vulgar language were the favorite style of speech, and very many of the people had all the whiskey down them that they could conveniently carry.

Oaths and lies are his tools that he works with, and he gets his living by the drudgery of his conscience.

The great inquest of all, the Domesday survey, may owe its principle to a foreign source; the oath of the reporters may be Norman, but the machinery that furnishes the jurors is native; "the king's barons inquire by the oath of the sheriff of the shire, and of all the barons and their Frenchmen, and of the whole hundred, the priest, the reeve, and six ceorls of every township.

The inclination of my mind is at this moment, to the principle that an oath may deepen the guilt of an act sinful in itself, but cannot be detached from the act; it being understood that a perfectly voluntary and self-imposed oath is itself a sin.

When a pastor enters this Church of which the Supreme War Lord is the head, his first oath is unqualified allegiance to his King and State.

He preaches to the crowd that power is lent, But not convey'd, to kingly government; That claims successive bear no binding force, That coronation oaths are things of course; Maintains the multitude can never err, And sets the people in the papal chair.

The oath which he exacted at Salisbury in 1086, and which is embodied in the semi-legal form already quoted, was a modification of the oath taken to Edmund, and was intended to set the general obligation of obedience to the king in its proper relation to the new tie of homage and fealty by which the tenant was bound to his lord.

Hereon the decision of the greatest causes concerning the lives, estates, and reputations of men have depended; so that, as the Apostle saith, "an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

"Mr. O'Brien's oath wasn't any oath at all!

What more vain than so to assert a disputable problem: oaths (like wagers) are in such cases no arguments, except silliness in the users of them.

A man's oath is evidence of his assent to this contract.

The oath taken by Lewis the Germanic, in the year 842, in confirmation of an alliance between him and Charles the Bald his brother, is a decisive proof of the general use of the Romance by the whole French nation at that time, and of their little knowledge of the Teutonic, which being the native tongue of Lewis, would certainly have been used by him, in this oath, had it been understood by the French to whom he addressed himself.

Nay, swear notI will naught believe; Thine oaths are but a fowler's net, And woe betide the dame who falls Into the snare that thou hast set.

And are not lovers' oaths a jest of hundreds of years' standing?

But every new compact was as futile as those which preceded it; each oath which fell from the royal lips was but a renewal of previous perjuries.

An oath is the jurist's metaphysical pons asinorum, and like this should be used as seldom as ever possible.

Consequently, the oath to support the Constitution of the United States is a solemn promise to do that which is morally wrong; that which is a violation of the natural rights of man, and a sin in the sight of God.