A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained
- James MadisonThey spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
- Oscar WildePeople who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
- Oscar WildeThere is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man
- Edgar Allan PoeBe slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- SocratesDo not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart
- BibleFidelity is seven-tenths of business success
- James PartonSometimes party loyalty asks too much
- John Fitzgerald KennedyNothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
- Marcus Tullius CiceroPeace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
- Thomas Merton