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 LOYALTY
If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him. If you work for him; speak well of him; stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn, and eternally disparage, resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content, but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it. If you do that, you are loosening the tendrils that are holding you to the institution, and at the first high wind that comes along, you will be uprooted and blown away, and will probably never know the reason why.
- Elbert Hubbard
“LOYALTY … means allegiance permeated with strong and enthusiastic feeling or sentiment. It means loyalty to loved ones; loyalty to superiors; loyalty to constituted authority; loyalty, solid and indivisible, to the country. A disloyal soldier has no place in an organized and disciplined army. No element can be more disruptive to any organization than a rebellious, treacherous, and disloyal member. Loyalty is the binding and unifying force in any army. It is the invisible chain of steel that links men together. Remove the spirit of loyalty from the members of a command and the unit will collapse like a house of cards. This soldierly virtue is a preponderant factor in welding men in a spirit of harmonious relationship and mutual understanding and sympathy.”
“By LOYALTY in the motto is meant one which emphasizes the idea of objective obligation. It is the loyalty as exemplified by those who, loyal to the last to the country’s cause, ‘died in the night’ fighting against formidable odds to bestow upon their posterity a heritage of liberty championed by a government founded upon the ideals and principles of democracy. It is the loyalty that looks upon mutiny and treachery as despicable and odious. It is loyalty that looks upon the crime of Benedict Arnold as heinous and unpardonable. Loyalty, however, does not countenance blind obedience. It does not approve of obnoxious officiousness. Loyalty – yes, but not fawning and cringing servility. It is loyalty that is wise and discreet, not enslaving and debasing.”
“INTEGRITY … is the most important of the three. The other two may be disregarded but never, never this third. Strike out the third and a cadet or any man for that matter will be a wretch, a scum of the lowest stratum of society, an abominable creature who is a living dead. This quality a cadet must possess to the highest degree not only because his future career exacts it from him but also because he is a part of the body politic whose members should rightfully be men of integrity. INTEGRITY means honesty, uprightness, moral soundness. A cadet should guard his moral rectitude zealously lest it be stigmatized or blemished. History records the degeneracy of races, the disintegration of nations, the decline and fall of power and dominancy of what had been strong peoples because of the low and ruinous morals that gripped them. To secure to himself, therefore, an unimpeachable integrity the cadet has entrusted himself under the hallowed guardianship of an Honor Code.”
“INTEGRITY is a man’s delicate asset. It is hard to keep it untarnished in a world that seethes with profligate vices and degenerate crimes. Yet if he can keep it unstained inspite of the malignant forces of evil, he has passed man’s greatest ordeal. It is needless to theorize, it is superfluous to expostulate on the advisability of possessing an integrity that defies reproach. What does it profit a man if he has the whole world trampled under his iron heels but is a moral wreck? The military profession is one profession that demands an extremely high degree of integrity. A man of low morals and weak principles unindoctrinated in the rules of upright living and good conduct is a hateful pest that is unwanted in the army and in society as a whole. We hear of atrocious crimes committed by unprincipled soldiers in time of war. Crimes of unfold vulgarity and meanness that we blush when we hear of them. Those soldiers had courage; they had loyalty. But they lacked that one vital virtue: INTEGRITY. In the absence of this manly quality, they became a curse of humanity instead of professed protectors of the weak and the defenseless. Such is the importance of integrity in men who live by the sword.”
Loyalty Quotes
"An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness."....Loyalty Quote by Elbert Hubbard.
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will....Loyalty Quote by Mark Twain.
"The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed."....Loyalty Quote by Winston Churchill.
"Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death."....Loyalty Quote by Lee J. Iacocca.
"When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own."....Loyalty Quote by General Colin Powell.
"Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong."....by Abraham Lincoln.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life....Loyalty Quote by Oscar Wilde.
"Loyalty cannot be blueprinted. It cannot be produced on an assembly line. In fact, it cannot be manufactured at all, for its origin is the human heart-the center of self-respect and human dignity. It is a force which leaps into being only when conditions are exactly right for it-and it is a force very sensitive to betrayal."....Loyalty Quote by Maurice R. Franks. The following story is from the writings of Elbert Hubbard: An American writer, artist, publisher and philosopher from 19th century.
Story Line:
If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him.
If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him -- speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents.
I think if I worked for a man, I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage, why, resign your position, and then when you are outside, damn to your heart's content. But I pray you, as long as you are a part of an institution, do not condemn it. Not that you will injure the institution -- not that -- but when you disparage a concern of which you are a part, you disparage yourself.
More than that, you are loosening the tendrils that hold you to the institution, and the first high wind that happens along, you will be uprooted and blown away in the blizzard's track -- and probably you will never know why - - - Get Out or Get in Line
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