Quotes About Loyalty

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.

To this day, whenever I'm in Milwaukee, which is often, I'm reminded that the people there still haven't gotten over the Braves leaving ... If it helps, they should know the players haven't either.

I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

When asked about his "open relationship" with fans: Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and I can see other readers.

There ain't nobody I'd rather have alongside me in a bar brawl than my mama with a broken beer bottle in her hand.

Only in the worst moment will you know: Friend or Foe!

Eva, I am orderin' ye to go." "Well, you can order all you bloody like, my lord husband, but I will not leave your side until I get the bleeding stopped," she snapped and Connall gaped at her, unable to believe his sweet, witty, lovely little bride had spoken to him so. Were wives not supposed to obey their husbands? He was sure he recalled that in the wedding ceremony. "Come

inculcated with a healthy national consciousness.

Love of country, patriotism, a cause - these are noble virtues, but people don't fight and die for them. They will fight and die for their units and for their comrades. (in the Introduction by Steve Ambrose)

We have seen year after year the passion you have for music, and the way you have always been incredibly passionate fans, even though Hanson has not always been the coolest thing to be into.

To disobey an order is, I know, unforgivable, but the determination to save my comrades

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you're with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.

This was the beginning. The end is easily foreseen; for, given a young man of Dick's temperament, longing for companionship, and another young man of Charlie's make?up, with a legitimate business to bring the two together, and only a friendship of the David and Jonathan order could result.

I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God." ~ Lt Gen Hal Moore, (Ret) 'We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young: Ia Drang-The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

There's never been a noble war except in the history books and propaganda movies. It's a bloody, dirty, cruel, costly mistake in almost every case, as it was in this war that would end so badly. But the young soldiers can be and often are noble, selfless, and honorable. They don't fight for a flag or a president or mom and apple pie. When it comes down to it they fight and die for each other, and that is reason enough for them, and for me.

I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God.

Southern newspapers hungry for fodder to roil the secession debate fed their subscribers the most inciteful material they could unearth in the Northern press. Northern journals scoured Southern papers for similarly provocative reports designed to confirm hotheaded Southern disloyalty.

So great was the quest for patronage that Lincoln came to hope that Southerners would never leave the Union and abandon the plum government jobs they might retain if they remained loyal. As he joked rather cynically to the Ohio editor and politician Donn Piatt over a chicken dinner at the Lincoln home: "Were it believed that vacant places could be had at the North Pole, the road there would be lined with dead Virginians.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

Friends are more than just people who will listen to what you have to say and agree with you. Sometimes they have to tell you things you don't want to hear for your own sake. Please listen to what we have to say.

Jerry looked at me and then laughed. Jerry was no dunce. He knew what was on my mind. Jerry was a strange friend. He wasn't an easy one to make friends with; neither was he stuck-up. He was just—particular. I don't know why he liked me, but if I could see far enough ahead, if I could only have known what Jerry and I—but we'll get to it when we get to it. It's bad enough we can look back and remember; it would be a lot worse if we knew what was coming.

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.