Quotes About Loyalty

The military masters of Germany have filled our unsuspecting communities with vicious spies and conspirators and have sought to corrupt the opinion of our people . . . [These persons] seek to undermine the Government with false professions of loyalty to its principles."23

Americans couldn't go to war: with 1.3 million German immigrants living in the United States, Zimmermann was fond of pointing out, plus another 10 million Americans of German descent, any military move against Germany would trigger a national uprising

By rounding on Kornilov, Russia's prime minister made an enemy of the one man who could have helped him prevent what was coming.

Hoe kan iemand ooit bewijzen dat hij je vertrouwen waard is, als je het hem niet eerst van harte schenkt.

Cheers for the sailors that fought on the wave for it, Cheers for the soldiers that always were brave for it, Tears for the men that went down to the grave for it, Here comes the flag!

Cliques are groups, groups are great, great are cliques of people.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

Quand le monde sera réduit en un seul bois noir pour nos quatre yeux étonnés, - en une plage pour deux enfants fidèles, - en une maison musicale pour notre claire sympathie, - je vous trouverai.

Come back, come back, dear friend, only friend, come back. I promise to be good.

For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with one's friends.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

Before the thought of Cleopatra every man is an Antony.

The multitude who cried "Hosanna to the Son of David," speedily changed to "Away with Him, Crucify Him.

A questo mondo ci sono tante cose che si è costretti a fare per amore o per forza.

It was one of Diego Alatriste's virtues that he could make friends in Hell.

Amicizia..." Corso si guardò attorno, aspettando che qualcuno gli spiegasse la parola. "I bar e i cimiteri sono pieni di amici inseparabili.

Esos hijoputas ya son difíciles como aliados, así que cuando sepan que estamos fusilando a los paisanos para que los pinte al óleo ese tipo, Goya, figúrese la que nos pueden organizar.

Always that damned discipline that you wear like chain mail ... You would have got on well with Bernard de Clairvaux and his gang of Knights Templar. If you'd been captured by Saladin, I'm sure you'd rather have had your throat cut than renounce your faith. But not from devotion, from pride.

Así, tras haber tenido buen número de amantes, una mujer debe considerarse afortunada si sabe convertir a alguno de ellos, el más inteligente, en un fiel y leal amigo.

Il poeta annuì gravemente, guardò altrove e non disse altro. Come lui stesso aveva sostenuto più volte, l'amicizia si nutre di giri di bevute, stoccate spalla contro spalla e silenzi opportuni.

Si al menos fueran extranjeros los enemigos de España, todavía. Pero no. Todos los que con la espada, con la pluma, con la palabra, agravan y perpetúan los males de la Nación son españoles.

Un perro no es más que una lealtad en busca de una causa. Dadle una idea a uno como yo, un amo o un objetivo en la vida, y se aferrará a ello con los colmillos apretados.