Quotes about Loyalty

I like the ethos of the military and the idea of joining an institution in which, at the very least, everyone who signs up believes in something.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

What's the difference between a Spartan king and a mid-ranker? One man will lob this query to his mate as they prepare to bed down in the open in a cold driving rain. His friend considers mock-theatrically for a moment. .'The king sleeps in that shithole over there' he replies. 'We sleep in this shithole over here.

Let us be, then, warriors of the heart, and enlist in our inner cause the virtues we have acquired through blood and sweat in the sphere of conflict—courage, patience, selflessness, loyalty, fidelity, self-command, respect for elders, love of our comrades (and of the enemy), perseverance, cheerfulness in adversity and a sense of humor, however terse or dark.

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be allowed to know this.

the man who really loves his country is not the one who refuses to attack it when he has been unjustly driven from it, but the man whose desire for it is so strong that he will shrink from nothing in his efforts to get back there again.

Who profits from a king's fidelity save generations a thousand years unborn, and which of his works will they recall at that remove, or care?

will tell His Majesty what a king is. A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field.

I will tell His Majesty what a king is. A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field.

But a ship of war runs on heart as much as sweat. There must be love among the men or you're finished.

In defeat one learns who are friends to him, and by whom he is accounted friend.

Often couples or close friends, even entire families, will enter into tacit compacts whereby each individual pledges (unconsciously) to remain mired in the same slough in which she and all her cronies have become so comfortable.