Duty of Loyalty Quotes

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

The Army will hear nothing of politics from me, and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the Army.

I am not a governor of a Province. There can be no promotion for a King other than that of Heaven itself…. What possible right could I have to ask for an oath of allegiance from another people if I do not remain faithful to that which I had sworn to Holland when I ascended the throne.

Government lawyers, like private ones, face the problem routinely of aiding in the defense and development of positions in whose correctness they don't believe.

Those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service.

If, for the smallest faults, the people had a right to resist or depose their sovereign, no prince could maintain his authority, and the community would be continually distracted; such a situation would be directly contrary both to the end and institution of government, and of sovereignty. It is therefore right to overlook the lesser faults of sovereigns, and to have a regard to the laborious and exalted office, with which they are invested for our preservation

I deserve removal because I did not stand up, when my army was not in condition for fighting, and resist to the last.

Conscientious objection is an intrinsic part of being a soldier.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.