Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your read more

Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.

O, where is loyalty?
If it be banished from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a read more

O, where is loyalty?
If it be banished from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?

A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, read more

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

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant!
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true read more

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant!
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true as steel.

To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.

To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found,
Among the faithless faithful only he.

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found,
Among the faithless faithful only he.