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An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

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Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ↗

— Mark Twain

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There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. ↗

— Andre Gide

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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort. ↗

— Marcus Annaeus Lucan

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It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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