Quotes About Loyalty

The day Americans stop viewing explicit patriotism as a virtue and begin to view it as something "eccentric and foolish" is the day we cease to be a great country.

Having a cat is like having a pet. Having a dog is like having a really stupid brother who needs a lot of looking after.

Rule 9 Okay, so a lot of the dog rules, say, the majority, can be made up by the dog, and if the owner knows what's good for him, he will obey these rules, but if he disobeys a rule and the dog doesn't find out about it, the under is under no obligation to confess.

I marveled silently at how dog people immediately relate to one another, openly and with some sort of dog-person warranty that you're trustworthy and decent human beings. Yes, subservient and somewhat soft in the head, but inherently good nonetheless.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.

No government can long endure unless its citizens are willing to make some sacrifice for its existence.

Shall the lover of his country measure his loyalty only by his service as a soldier? No! Patriotism calls for the faithful and conscientious performance of all of the duties of citizenship, in small matters as well as great, at home as well as upon the tented field.

He that lies with the dogs, riseth with the fleas.

But it was in the nearly silent times that the real strength of their bond was evident. A friend who understands everything without being told is the rarest and best kind of friend.

and Morris Lesmore became stooped and crinkly. But the books never changed. Their stories stayed the same. Now his old friends took care of him the way he once cared for them...

Sometimes I wonder what if I run off or dropped dead," Francis said. "Helen'd probably go crazy." "Why if you dropped dead she'd bury you before you started stinkin'," Jack said. "That's all'd happen." "What a heart you have," Francis said. "You gotta bury your dead," Jack said.

She kept secrets, her own and those told to her. I guess you'd call it integrity

I won't try to argue you out of this pit you've climbed into, Cork.

I lay on the straw matting, thinking about how much I'd hated Albert when I believed that he'd toadied out on us. And I thought about how much I loved him right at that moment, though I would never have told him so.

Betrayer. That was what they called him. That was how they would remember him. If they were lucky enough to survive and remember anything, it would be because he had saved them, and they would never know.

We have saved the Alliance and the Horde here this day, and they will never know," Vandel said at last. "They do not need to know. It is enough that they are here.

Make friends, because come a hurricane, you're going to need them

First, this great and glorious country was built up by political parties; second, parties can't hold together if their workers don't get the offices when they win; third, if the parties go to pieces, the government they built up must go to pieces, too; fourth, then there'll be h——to pay.

When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side,'" he said in a speech on November 6, 1933, "I calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.

A Squadron Commander who can't take his best friend out and shoot him can't Command worth s*#t" -Steep Turner

she was one of those selective, ferociously loyal people who, once they have taken you in, will stand by you through the most desperate times. Such people have few acquaintances and many friends. They withhold their affection because it costs them so much to give it so completely, and because they never—ever—revoke it. If you are lucky, you may meet one or two of them in your life.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend." We should not resent it if we are counseled or warned in a godly manner. Rather, we should realize that any person who would do this really has an interest in us. Righteous rebuke should be taken as from the Lord, and we should be grateful for it.

H. P. Barker warns: It is positive disloyalty to seek our crown before the King gets his. Yet this is what some of the Christians at Corinth were doing. The apostles themselves were bearing the reproach of Christ. But the Corinthian Christians were "rich" and "honorable." They were seeking a good time where their Lord and Master had such a hard time.10