Quotes About Loyalty

A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again. - I'm not sure

Show me who your friends are and I'll show you who you are. It works for me. Stay positive and good things happen.

We can be so much braver and bolder with a good friend by our side!

Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

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

It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against your country.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.

Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.

When a Jew, in America or in South Africa, talks to his Jewish companions about 'our' government, he means the government of Israel.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

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

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.