Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.
Christopher Dawson

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
Joseph Wood Krutch

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
Marie de France

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
Graham Greene

I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.
Jesse Ventura

I emphasize... that the Harrimans showed great courage and loyalty and confidence in us, because three or four of us were really running the business, the day to day business.
Prescott Bush

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.
George Gaylord Simpson

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
Joe Eszterhas

I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs.
Edgar Winter

I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.
Ernie Banks

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

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
Jack Steinberger

I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life.
Ernie Harwell

I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people.
Kenneth Starr

I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
Arthur Capper

I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
Samuel Goldwyn

I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.
Dick Van Patten

If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is.
William Wyler

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
James Herriot