Quotes About Allegiance

The root of credit is the Latin word credo, 'I believe

Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

This man has been disagreeable to you, and I want to tell you that any time you feel inclined to kick him, why, I will hold the other creature.

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

But in my heart, when I said "my king," I meant Verity.

Sometimes, it would be much easier to die for one's king than to give one's life for him.

Sometimes," Chade observed, "It would be much easier to die for one's king than to give one's life to him.

Nunca supe si Artimañas me había vendido a regio. Nunca se lo pregunté, ni siquiera compartí mis sospechas con Chade. Supongo que no quería saberlo. Intenté impedir que afectara mis lealtades. Pero en el fondo de mi corazón, cuando decía «mi rey» me refería a Veraz.

What happens to nationalism, to political boundaries, when allegiance lies with winds and waters that know no boundaries, that cannot be bought or sold?

Its a damned good thing that Eleanor Cavalier is a personal friend of mine or your ass, as they say would damned well be grass!

True allegiance is only given willingly.

Any Danish citizen would die for King Christian, to protect him.

I had named him Trofast – Faithful

One gives you the shirt off his back, mused Des, and the other offers to help you bury bodies. I do believe you have made some new friends, Pen!

Loyalty must run two ways, else become betrayal in the egg.

Yet loyalty must run two ways, or else become betrayal in the egg.

He doesn't shit on what we claim as our own and still command that loyalty.

The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.

You stick with him, no matter what. It's all he'll ever have, what you can give him.

Mere mouthpieces of a party, take away the party & they shrivel & vanish.

Friends stick by each other when one is down. That is a true test of friendship. But sometimes, it is harder to stick by a friend who is up. That is the ultimate test of friendship.

You've got me, anyhow. I'm not good for much, I know, but I'll stand by you, Jo, all the days of my life. Upon my word I will! and Laurie meant what he said.

Eliza received sympathy from her neighbors, who felt she was being abused by her husband. Yet she remained loyal to him

he elaborated the fashionable argument that the colonies owed their allegiance to the British king, not to Parliament. The point was critical, for if the colonies were linked only to the king, they could, theoretically, wriggle free from parliamentary control while creating some form of commonwealth status in the British empire.