Quotes About Loyalty

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

Your word can never be as good as your bond, because your memory can never be as trustworthy as your honor.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

No man is a leader until his appointment is ratified in the hearts and minds of his followers.

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.

Believe me then, my friend, that that is a miserable arithmetic which would estimate friendship at nothing, or at less than nothing.

Your friend lends and your enemy asks payment.

There are instincts that are deeper than anything else — deeper than death — and of these the strongest is the instinct of country that men call patriotism. Perhaps patriotism is the splendid spur by which the gods achieve their ends. I don't know. But nothing is so dominating, so powerful, as this patriotism.

I think there's one higher office than president, and I would call that patriot...

You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Promises may get thee Friends, but Nonperformance will turn them into Enemies.

I am constant to my purposes...

Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do't... Be a soldier to thy purpose.

Pity him who has few foster-friends.

There are ten church members by inheritance for every one by conviction.

How do people make it through life without a sister?

The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.

the love of one true man is worth a life's devotion

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

I was there the day that Horus fell.

You never know with dogs. My dog lives with bikes and riders, and still barks like crazy at bike riders. It's our family's shame. I tell her: "Every bite of food you eat, everything good that comes your way, is because of bikes, so no bark!" But she can't help herself; she's a terrier.