Quotes About Loyalty

In order to believe someone, you need to trust them.

Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single word — faith.

You have won battles without cannon, crossed rivers without bridges, made forced marches without shoes, camped without brandy and often without bread. Soldiers of liberty, only republican phalanxes [infantry troops] could have endured what you have endured.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

There are two kinds of fidelity - that of dogs and that of cats; and you gentlemen, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

What is the throne?—a bit of wood gilded and covered with velvet. I am the state—I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public—people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

Respect the burden.

The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the reestablishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.

Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

What is a throne? — a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state— I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public—people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

Es gibt kein gutmütigeres, aber auch kein leichtgläubigeres Volk als das deutsche. Keine Lüge kann grob genug ersonnen werden, die Deutschen glauben sie. Um eine Parole, die man ihnen gab, verfolgen sie ihre Landsleute mit größerer Erbitterung als ihre wirklichen Feinde.

Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life

The Americans have their spies here, and we have our people over there. You, however, are not simply a spy. You're a Soviet citizen—and a traitor. An entirely different fate awaits you.

I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

Jesus Himself, the Lover and Uniter of humanity, often stood up and spoke out for what was right or needed to be reinterpreted, even though it caused problems in the "church" He was loyal to. So much so, they killed Him for it.

You wouldn't leave me?" he'd asked her honestly afraid. ...In answer, Miri had taken her time before sharing a kind of warning. "I can tell you I'd never leave you. I can also tell you that what makes any marriage work is the knowledge that no relationship should be taken for granted. That there is always a line where the one who'd never leave you is suddenly gone.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Furthermore, having lost faith in himself, he thought it his duty to undermine the nation's faith in itself.