loyalty quotes

Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Speech at Fulton, Missouri, Mar.

England's foreign policy should always be inspired by the love of freedom. There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom one lays the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

-Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)
  Speech, West Calder, 27 Nov.

He felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappinessöthe sense that that is where we really belong.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
  The Heart of the Matter, bk.2, pt.2, ch.1, i.

As a boy I genuinely believed in the man who never ate bacon because its red and white stripesreminded himof Sheffield Unitedöindeed in my blue and white Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.

-Hattersley, Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron
  Goodbye toYorkshire.

Tout se fait par intrigue et rien par loyaute¤  . Everything is done by intrigue, not by loyalty.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Ruy Blas, act 3, sc.2.

Iwant loyalty.I want himto kissmyass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket.

-Johnson, Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ
Of a potential assistant. Quoted in David Halberstam The Best and the Brightest (1971), ch.20.

We have room in this country but for one flag, the Stars and Stripes.We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.We have room for but one language, the English language.

-Roosevelt,Theodore
  Message to theAmerican Defense Society two days before his death, 3 Jan.

Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.War springs from the love and loyalty that should be offered to God being applied to some God substituteöoneofthemostdangerousbeing nationalism.

-Runcie, Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron
  Sermon atThanksgiving Service after the FalklandsWar, St Paul's Cathedral, 26 Jul.

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