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A jack of both sides, is before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties.
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Birds of a feather flock together.
-Proverb
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
-Hannah Arendt
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And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dear Emma's little faults, she is an excellent creature. Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? No, no; she has qualities which may be trusted; she will never lead any one really wrong; she will make no lasting blunder; where Emma errs once, she is in the right a hundred times.
-Jane Austen
Emma, ch. 5
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In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Ruth 1:16
-Bible
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No man can serve two masters. Matthew 6:24
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Loyalty is still the same,
Whether it win or lose the game;
True as a dial to the sun,
Although it be not shined upon.
-Samuel Butler (poet)
Hudibras, 1663
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Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.
-Samuel Butler
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No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
-Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
-Joseph Conrad
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
-E. M. Forster
Two Cheers for Democracy
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I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
-Samuel Goldwyn
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I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.
-Horace
Epistles, bk I, epistle i
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-Elbert Hubbard
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Loyalty is something you give regardless of what you get back, and in giving loyalty, you're getting more loyalty; and out of loyalty flow other great qualities.
-Charles ''Tremendous'' Jones
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The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.
-Michael Jordan
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We are all the President's men.
-Henry Kissinger
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Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was -- nobody any longer wanted to be that.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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To betray you must first belong.
-Harold Philby
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
-Pablo Picasso
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
-Alexander Pope
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It is better to be faithful than famous.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.
-Josiah Royce
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
-Carl Schurz
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Books about Loyalty
