Quotes About Loyalty

Rogers and William Rockefeller had lured investors with the promise of their own involvement, but they dumped stock soon after it was issued.

Thomas Jones, a Loyalist judge in New York, wrote that not "a stick of wood, a spear of grass or a kernel of corn could the troops in New Jersey procure without fighting for it.

To believe America able to withstand England is a dreadful infatuation.

He was not a man to abandon a project that had received his blessing.

Already contemplating the future, Rockefeller wanted to be surrounded by trustworthy people who could inspire confidence in customers and bankers alike.

John "was still her hero after all the years.

It also reflected a profound political logic. Hamilton knew that bondholders would feel a stake in preserving any government that owed them money. If the federal government, not the states, was owed the money, creditors would shift their main allegiance to the central government.

Hamilton induced Philip Schuyler to renege on his pledged support for Duane in favor of King.

That's just how it is, you know, she said. Women always choose men over other women.

Every so often they exchanged these quick, knowing glances, each making sure the other one was still there, still with her. I wondered how long their friendship would last, and I felt sorry for them, because they didn't know it wouldn't.

But as Shakespeare's Richard II boasts, 'Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.

Joe was probably the only other human on the planet who liked coffee as much as I did. He started drinking it when he was six. I copied him immediately. I was four. Neither of us has stopped since. The Reacher brothers' need for caffeine makes heroin addiction look like an amusing little take-it-or-leave-it sideline.

Reacher smiled. Bad luck and trouble, been my only friends.

My country, right or wrong. Which means nothing, unless you admit your country is wrong sometimes. Loving a country that was right all the time would be common sense, not patriotism.

The guy offered his left fist. Reacher bumped it with his right, behind DeLong's back. Not the first time his knuckles had touched a Sox fan, but by far the gentlest.

I never volunteer for anything," I said. "Soldier's basic rule.

don't know why he's there, but I promise you he's clean, and he's going to do what needs doing, or he's going to die trying.

Reacher said, "I wish I could send you ahead. Instead of me. You're a grown-up. I don't care what happens to you. Come if you want. Stay with us all the way. But stay with us on my left-hand side." "Why that?" "I'm right-handed. I like freedom of movement." "Understood. Let's go.

Exactly patriotic. My country, right or wrong. Which means nothing, unless you admit your country is wrong sometimes. Loving a country that was right all the time would be common sense, not patriotism.

Admit nothing, even on your deathbed. You might suddenly get better.

The Amex card was the basic green item, due to expire in a year and a half. He had carried one since 1964, according to the Member Since rubric.

him. If your balls were in a vise, better that it wasn't Neagley's hand on the lever. The guy caved and agreed within ten minutes.

A veces nuestros amigos se convierten en nuestros enemigos, y a veces nuestros enemigos se convierten en nuestros amigos.

There was a knock at the door. Neagley herself, Reacher figured, right on cue, checking if Sinclair had killed him yet. Or Bishop, checking if he had killed Sinclair. He opened up, standing to one side, out of the line of fire. Long