Quotes About Loyalty

Why you do dis to me, Dimmy?

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms—never—never—never! You cannot conquer America.

Hugh, I remind you that you are still under the oath the last guy swore," Shawn said. "Is that real?" Ralston said.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

In 528, still the crown prince, not yet king, Khusro discovered that his father's Mazdakite allies were conspiring against the throne. Driven, perhaps, by a combination of loyalty, anger, and a desire to demonstrate a kingly sort of resolution, in 529 the prince arrested, tortured, and executed Mazdak, and followed up with a massacre of his followers. (The Mazdakites would one day serve as inspiration for Islam's dissident Shi'a.)

As Nachmanides championed the cause of Maimonides against his enemies, so he took up the cause of Alfazi, against Sarachya Halevi and Abraham Ben David, who attacked Alfazi's Talmudic productions.

At the heart of this phenomenon, Fourth Generation war,4 lies not a military evolution but a political, social, and moral revolution: a crisis of legitimacy of the state. All over the world, citizens of states are transferring their primary allegiance away from the state to other entities: to tribes, ethnic groups, religions, gangs, ideologies, and "causes." Many people who will no longer fight for their state are willing to fight for their new primary loyalty.

At the most powerful level of war, the moral level, the key to victory is to convince the local people to identify with the state, or at least to acquiesce to it, rather than identifying with non-state entities.

To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still.

"You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath taken you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

Good counselors lack no clients.

Though those who are betrayed do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe.

Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

The little dogs and all,Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.

In thy face I seeThe map of honor, truth, and loyalty.

Lear: So young, and so untender?Cordelia: So young, my lord, and true.

Ferdinand:… Here's my hand.Miranda: And mine, with my heart in't.

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

When the lion fawns upon the lamb,The lamb will never cease to follow him.

Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key,With bated breath, and whispering humbleness,Say this.