Quotes About Loyalty

Whatever Elisabeth did, Franz Joseph's affection remained unchanged.

It's always been my mom and I against the world.

A tricky bit of business, this believing in someone else. So tricky that we would never do it, if we did not want someone, someday, to believe in us, too.

Almost lost you," he thought, surprised to find himself blinking back tears. "Been through too much, me and you. We're going to finish this thing together.

You swore to me. Does your word mean nothing?" Peter smiled wickedly, like someone who had just called checkmate. "I had my fingers crossed." "What? What the fuck are you talking about?" "That's the rules. You forgot to check.

Makwa, my bravest warrior." His words were earnest and measured. "The great spirits call. It is time for you to go to them, to be honored for your loyalty and bravery. Mishe Moneto has gathered all your great fathers and they all await you with a magnificent feast. Go to them with your chin held high. Take your rightful place.

I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!

But that was not the Royal Way; the King's servants didn't have to stoop.

Because if He were a King in name only, I would rather go back to the chocolate factory. I would remain a Christian, but I would know that my religion was only a set of principles, excellent and to be followed, but hardly demanding devotion. Suppose on the other hand that I were to discover God to be a Person, in the sense that He communicated and cared and loved and led. That was something quite different. That was the kind of King I would follow into any battle.

Paying supporters, not good governance or representing the general will, is the essence of ruling. Buying loyalty is particularly difficult

It is better to have loyal incompetents than competent rivals. Sometimes of course, having competent advisors is unavoidable.

No fool stays in power for years on end when there are so many generals, sons, and wives waiting in the wings to launch a coup.

The choice between enhancing social welfare and enriching a privileged few is not a question of how benevolent a leader is. Honorable motives might seem important, but they are overwhelmed by the need to keep essential supporters happy, and the means of keeping them happy depends on how many need rewarding.

And so that generation was deprived of the one element that is essential to the operation of a free society-the ability to assume, in the absence of good proof to the contrary, that men in public life are generally decent, honorable, and loyal.

The people had to admire and respect the army before they could help it.

Because it's not the "friends" or "followers" who stay by your side when you're sick or when you get divorced or just feel lonely. They're not sitting at the table with their neighbors—or even, in many cases, with their families.

To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.

We are told here that we should make an irrevocable decision, come hell or high water, to stay with someone, not for the happiness or satisfactions it will bring, but just because (pp. 332–3/308).

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

While four slave states of the upper South had joined the Confederacy, another four (Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware, which together became known as the "loyal border states") remained in the Union.

was] at home accumulating for the benefit of his master"?49 In the hill country of northern Alabama, farmer James Bell cautioned his son Henry in April 1861 not to be seduced by the rhetoric of the South's large "Negroholders." "All they want," the elder Bell advised, "is to git you pupt up and go fight for there infurnal negroes and after you do there fighting you may kiss there hine parts for o they care.

You see, sir, politics have changed since before the war. Before the war the reds were seditious and the blacks and the whites were loyal, but now the reds have won the war and so they're loyal and the blacks and the whites are seditious, and now we've got to stamp out their political opinions, although we've still got to respect them, too, because that's democracy.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

We said we'd walk together baby come what may.That come the twilight should we lose our way.If as we're walkin a hand should slip free,I'll wait for you And should I fall behind,Wait for me.