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"Our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big spenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know better how to spend your money than you, the people, do. But we're not going to let them do it, period."
"But Colin's only understanding of love was of limitless loyalty, boundless tolerance."
"Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise."
"No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life."
"Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and that becomes an object of our spontaneous loyalty, as a criterion and point of reference for the rest of the human race."
"Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field."
"The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?"
"That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together."
"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."
"Which one is the most important between trust, hope and love? Loyalty."
"When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified."
"Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself"
"As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie."
"Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth."
"Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring."
"For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty."
"There are exceptional loyalties and there are old fashion ideas about how you get loyalties, and after all the auditorium is full of people who have co-owned shares with the managers for many decades, and in many cases they co-invested when everyone was young and obscure. Also when you come back to a place like that you are celebrating old loyalties, and of course the basic idea behind so much of Berkshire is the old fashioned idea that the best way to get loyalty is to deserve loyalty."
"The fuhrer of the Third Reich has freed the German man from his external humiliation and from the inner weakness caused by Marxism - and has returned him to the ancestral Germanic values of honor, loyalty and courage."
"Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies."
"O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?"
