Loyalty Quotes
The Muslims conquered Spain and controlled it to one extent or another for 600 years.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
He was referring to views like those of Stephen Decatur {599442} and Carl Schurtz {33636}.
Prince de Benévant
He was summarizing a political principle that he observed Richard M. Nixon follow both in domestic politics and internationally.
Leaders of nations for years only trusted as truly patriotic those man—usually nobles of the aristocracy—who owned land. If an invader came and seized their land, they would lose their wealth. However money is fungible, and a banker can easily move his money abroad and join another nation or side in a war. If the country is ruined by war, the manufacturer cannot obtain labor or raw materials, The financier depends on none of these and so hs not the vested interest in the welfare of the nation.