Quotes about Loyalty

The central commandment is in relation to the person. But religion today has lost sight of the person. Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment. It has fallen victim to the belief that the real is only that which is capable of being registered by fact-finding surveys.

These are the three pillars on which our prayer rises to God: our own loyalty, the holiness of Israel, the mercy of God.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down...

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

Worse than traitors in arms are the men who, pretending loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the nation.