Quotes About Loyalty

Shakespeare gave Henry V before the Battle of Agincourt, when the King addresses his men as 'we few, we happy few, we band of brothers'. Churchill was wont to compare the fighter pilots with knights.

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

I didn't join the army to shoot Americans. If I wanted to shoot Americans I'd have joined the police.

You can function just as long as your superiors have faith and confidence in you. When they lose it—your fault, other people's fault, whatever—then you have to leave and make room for the next guy. Your time at the plate is over.

Can you believe that? Americans spitting on the men who have sworn to defend them, on the men who've sworn to obey the orders of the elected, civilian government.

A friend cannot be owned That is plain to see Friendships must be shared, Just like our friend, Ruby

A) friend doesn't belong to anyone. Friendship is not something you own. Friendship is something you share. To have a friend, you must be a friend. There is no other way.

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered something awful. Even in the best recovery there'd be a fear that everything would fall apart and they'd become victims again. And their final loyalty was to themselves. They couldn't be forced. They preferred to wreck everything, preferred self-destruction to surrender. (175)

Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.

Anything was better than the blood and carnage, the grime and filth, the impossible demands made on the body—anything, that is, except letting down their buddies.

That is why enduring to the end is the fifth principle of the gospel. Daily, our question shouldn't be "Have I made it to the kingdom yet?" but rather, "Do I still want to stay?

Okay," he said, "I'm going in." He turned to Swagger. "Sorry, old guy. A world where she dies so I can survive isn't a world I choose to live in.

Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.

While assuring the authorities of their loyalty, the patriots made thinly veiled threats concerning their prowess with firearms. The Boston Gazette declared: "Besides the regular trained militia in New-England, all the planters sons and servants are taught to use the fowling piece from their youth, and generally fire balls with great exactness at fowl or beast.

Faith has no use for the sword, because those who ride with the sword to defend their faith ride with the devil by their side.

Can one really believe in the church universal and profess America First without offense to the body of Christ?

It was Arthur's welcome alone, I believe, which turned the tide of misery for Merlin.

We would follow Arthur to the very gates of Hell and beyond if he asked it. And that is the solitary truth.

I took him by the arm to steady him. He opened his eyes slowly, the bright golden gleam now darkened with pain and sorrow. "Morgian!' he uttered, his voice strangled with grief. "It was Morgian. . .

There is nothing so fine as a new friend, for in time they become the most precious of all the Comforter's gifts—old friends!

I raised my spear to heaven. 'For God and Britain!' I cried, and my cry was answered in kind. And then I was racing down the hillside, my cloak rippling out behind me, the wind singing from my dark-glinting spearhead.

May you always have ale enough to wet your tongues, wit enough to know friend from foe, and strength enough for every fight.