Mark Twain Quotes About Loyalty
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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?
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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.
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Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
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Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.
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