Quotes About Loyalty

Many years after the war, an American journalist asked Jeannie Rousseau, one of Marie-Madeleine's operatives, why she had risked her life to join Alliance. "I don't understand the question," replied Rousseau, who was responsible for one of the greatest Allied intelligence coups of the war. "It was a moral obligation to do what you are capable of doing. It was a must. How could you not do it?

By the end of the war, more than 130 additional French policemen would join Philippe as Alliance operatives—proof that the much-hated French police forces, who were seen, quite rightly, as doing the Germans' dirty work for them, had their fair share of members who passionately opposed the idea of being Nazi collaborators.

Today, Darlan gives me Algiers and I cry 'Vive Darlan!' If Quisling gives me Oslo, I will cry 'Vive Quisling!' Let Laval give me Paris tomorrow, and I will cry 'Vive Laval!

Roosevelt had belittled his closest ally, a man who greatly admired him. In the process, the president sent a very different message than he intended. How could the ever suspicious Stalin be expected to trust these men when they showed no loyalty to each other?

The connection formed by a threat to one's county is the strongest connection of all. People adopt one another, march together. Only capture or death can tear them apart.

There was another pause and then Bastien clucked and snapped, "Dammit, Thomas! Inez is one of my best employees." He pulled the phone away from his ear to peer at it with disbelief, and then slapped it back to his head. "What the hell has that got to do with anything?" "Well, if you had to find your lifemate, couldn't it have been someone else's employee. I'm going to lose her now. She'll want to be with you and come to Canada and--

The only true satisfaction we can seek is the satisfaction of being obedient to the Lord.

But we can't enable bad behavior in ourselves and others and call it love. We can't tolerate destructive patterns and call it love. And we can't pride ourselves on being loyal and longsuffering in our relationships when it's really perpetuating violations of what God says love is.

When it comes to my body, I can 't live with divided loyalties. I can either be loyal to honoring the Lord or loyal to my cravings, desires, and many excuses for not exercising

Never let loyalty and kindness leave you! Tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart. Then you will find favor with both God and people, and you will earn a good reputation. (vv. 3 – 4 NLT)

when we operate according to God's Word, we operate according to God's will.

The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals.

Do not associate with the lowly: If you must, with the mighty make friends: For the cobra, having Vishnu's protection, Inquired fondly after the Garuda's health! -----From the Sanskrit, cited in Birds and Birdsong

It is rare in life to be graced with a true best friend. Someone who is willing to do anything for you. Good or bad times. Drop his or her life to be there, without any personal expectations. Nothing can replace the warm touch, kind embrace, or simple gestures best friends lavish on each other.

He had innocents to protect. That was part of his duty.

loyalty must be earned from a man whose dignity has not been assaulted.

Just how hair-triggerishly anxious George was would be well illustrated a few months later, in July 1917, when he became so upset about insinuations that the royal family might not be entirely loyal because of their German names and antecedents that he changed the family name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the entirely made-up Windsor.

I will believe in you every day of my life"—Elliot to E.T. from the movie E.T.

You know who you should ask about this? My pal Ray, who works with me. He could tell you all about this." Lily's dad nodded. "Except he was taken out of the office a few days ago with his hands tied behind his back and a bandanna tied as a gag on his mouth." Her father thought for a second. "Huh. He hasn't been in to work since. I wonder if he has the flu.

It's times like this that I'm real glad I have friends. They say friends are worth your weight in gold.

Freinds are those whom we do it.

From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.

There is, however, a tipping point where loyalty to one's own tribe curdles into resentment and hatred, then aggression toward others. That's when Fascism enters the picture, trailed by an assortment of woes, up to and including the Holocaust and global war.

Democrats pleaded with their countrymen to recognize the Communists' hypocrisy—that the same partisans who bragged about opposing Fascism were now aping its techniques. The Communists were simply replacing pictures of Hitler with portraits of Stalin and, like Mussolini's Blackshirts, attacking the press, smearing political rivals, demanding total loyalty from party members, and threatening anyone who stood in their way.