Quotes About Loyalty

Politicians tell you what you want to hear, what fools you all are for believing the lies and becoming such sheep.

But for the latter group, the aggrieved "Middle Americans," the experience has been a bummer all around. All they have to show for their Republican loyalty are lower wages, more dangerous jobs, dirtier air, a new overlord class that comports itself like King Farouk—and, of course, a crap culture whose moral free fall continues without significant interference from the grandstanding Christers whom they send triumphantly back to Washington every couple of years.

This much is clear, though, from the elections of the last ten years: those parts of Johnson County with the lowest per capita income and lowest median housing values consistently generated the strongest support for the conservative faction. The areas with the highest income and highest real-estate values—Mission Hills and Leawood—were just as reliably loyal to the moderate machine.22 The more working-class an area is, the more likely it is to be conservative. This

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

He that fears your presence will hate you absence.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

A fav'rite has no friend!

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

The merchant has no country.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

If you see Roxanne," said Thumps, "you might tell her to mind her own business." Chintak paled. "We are friends, are we not?" "We are." "Friends should not suggest such dangerous enterprises." "Roxanne is all bark." "Ah," said Chintak, "then the stories of gratuitous violence are not true?

I'll trust myself, myself shall be my friend.

No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.

Lucifer's last words in heaven may have been "Non serviam," but none has served the Almighty so dutifully, since His sideshow in the clouds would never draw any customers if it were not for the main attraction of the devil's hell on earth.

As the political scientist Ian Bremmer wrote in the run-up to the U.S. elections of 2020, victims seek saviors, and there is never a shortage of volunteers.

After the long time of going together and the mutual trust that had grown out of that time, Payne had occasion to realize that no mutual trust had grown out of the long time they had gone together.