Quotes About Loyalty

She dutifully attended McDonald's gatherings in later years, and she was liked by operators' wives and by women on the staff, but there was nothing more between us. Our thirty-five years of holy matrimony endured another five in unholy acrimony. I

Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself.

Y tú de qué lado estás? —Del mismo que he estado siempre: del nuestro. —¿Y ése qué lado es? —El de los que van a salir de aquí.

But loyalists came in all shapes and forms, and they were not all rich.

If they sided with the king, they did so from defiant self-interest, not humble submission. Perhaps Jury Wheeler expressed the mood best when he pronounced that if he were forced to carry arms in the rebel army, his first target would be his captain.

Whether tenant farmers seeking their own land or cultural minorities fearful of persecution, many groups of Americans, upon surveying the political landscape of the Revolution, sided with the British for reasons that had little or nothing to do with political philosophy. Articulate and vociferous Tories might preach on the moral virtues of loyalty and the corresponding evils of revolution, but many rank-and-file loyalists operated from concrete principles of survival and self-interest.

When the rebels tried to get them to join the army, or pay extra taxes for the war, or at the very least sign a loyalty oath, the Mennonites just said no.

Free blacks tended to enlist for "three years or the duration" while slaves promised to serve until the end as a condition of obtaining their freedom.

As of April 1, 1779, those who refused to take the oath were barred from holding public office or serving on juries—and that was all. There would be no more imprisonment or threat of confiscation for the crime of not signing an oath. As much as the government wanted loyalty, it could not afford to lose tens of thousands of hard-working citizens for the lack of their names on a piece of paper.

In New York, "An Act More Effectually to Punish Adherents of the King" declared that "preaching, teaching, speaking, writing, [or] printing" opinions favorable to the Crown was a capital offense, commutable by a three-year tour on a ship of war.

They feared slaves who "entertained ideas, that the present contest was for obliging us to give them their liberty."12 They feared the British, who "have been tampering with our Negroes; and have held nightly meetings with them; and all for the glorious purpose of enticing them to cut their masters' throats while they are asleep.

Many whites who were suspected of loyalties to the British were hounded, tarred and feathered, sent into exile—but they were not hanged on the mere suspicion of what they might do in the future. Something else was going on here, something with a distinctly racial twist. Jeremiah personified the worst fears of white patriots: what if black men, acting as their own agents, sided against them?

Of course I do, Jack! You have to beLIEve me!

Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.

A soldier's job is to put his life on the line for his country.

Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.

Luckily, I have some amazing friends.

They would drift away like people did if there was nothing to tie them down or hold them steady.

I've always just given myself to the band, if you know what I mean, and been busy with that.

The Army was my bread and butter.

If a coach wants me to stay, then I think it's good that he doesn't just butter things up, but actually tells the truth.

I still get butterflies when England are playing.

S.U.V.'s are under a lot of scrutiny these days, and yet the S.U.V. buyer is a very loyal lot.

You want me to become a leaker? I'm not. I do not leak any news from the Cabinet sessions.