Loyalty Quotes - Page 14

• The Democratic Party will now stick with its guy forever, no matter how harmful he is. Perhaps you call that loyalty, and perhaps there's something to it, but a bigger part, I believe, is that you have come to think that winning is everything-that victory is the purpose of politics.

  Peggy Noonan

  Party, Believe, Winning

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• The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army

  Julius Caesar

  Army, Differences, Republic

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• Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

  Alan Barth

  Miscellaneous, Depends, Toleration

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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

  Storm, Shelter, Masters

  "The Epistles" by Horace, Book I, epistle i, line 14,

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• Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the price of his immunity from political pressure and of the security of his tenure.

  Learned Hand

  Believe, Political Opinions, Law

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Party, Men, Levels

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• To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

  B. F. Skinner

  Citizens, May, Behavior

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• If you want to know what's Real, of love, of life, of loyalty, put it through the greatest test: Time.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Real, Love Life, Want

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• Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Iron, Saint

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call”, p.86, Discovery House

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• The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty, and trust-these are enduring truths glimpsed and judged first through the imagination, first through art.

  Michael Dorris

  Art, Strong, Honesty

  Michael Dorris (1994). “Paper trail: essays”, Harpercollins

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• When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished; if we fail, we should not begrudge our lives as a sacrifice-this is what we mean by loyalty. The ancient teaching of loyalty meant sometimes death.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Perseverance, Teaching, Mean

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• Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Commitment, Religion, Levels

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.12, Macmillan

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• With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which would give a comfortable living and sufficient leisure, in order to sacrifice to my gods [mathematical research]. For example, I hope to get the editting of the census, the birth and death lists in local districts, not as a job, but for my pleasure and satisfaction.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Jobs, Science, Sacrifice

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• Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty, love, and respect.

  Xunzi

  Sacrifice, Expression, Heaven

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• There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

  Marie de France

  Men, Ends, Hidden Things

  Marie de France (2014). “French Medieval Romances from the Lais of Marie de France”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not something we should practice to accrue future benefits.

  Julian Baggini

  Practice, Cards, Benefits

  "Goodies behaving badly" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2010.

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• Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Reader

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• Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.

  Conrad Black

  Personality, Company

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• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

  Floyd Abrams

  Causes, Clients, Duty

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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• Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.

  John Bates Clark

  Class, Feelings, Favors

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• Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

  Garet Garrett

  Father, Law, Political

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• [About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their jobs within 65 days.] No conceivable damage to the university at the hands of hypothetical Communists among us could possibly have equaled the damage resulting from the unrest, ill-will and suspicion engendered by this series of events.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  Jobs, Science, California

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• You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Iphone, Apples, Needs

  "Hell Freezes Over: Warner Music claims Itunes is Digital Music Done Right" by Bryan Gardiner, www.wired.com. November 14, 2007.

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• Leaf fans loyalty is unshakeable. The fans keep coming back and it hurts, I have been there. I have lost in game six to go to the finals with the Maple Leafs, against Carolina and what a great final that would have been.

  Curtis Joseph

  Hurt, Games, Fans

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• I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Thinking, Class, People

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