Lealdade
# Lealdade

Lealdade: o estado de ser leal; o propósito ou devoção de fidelidade a alguma pessoa, a uma causa.
       - You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions, or its office holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags--this is loyalty to unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let monarchy keep it.
          - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court - página 100, Mark Twain - Harper & Bros., 1899 - 433 páginas
       - Augusto Tasso Fragoso antes de prender o presidente Washington Luís, diante de uma resposta negativa; O Último Tenente, de Juracy Magalhães em depoimento a J. Gueiros — editora Record
       - Anthony Burgess citado em Revista Veja, Edição 1 659 - 26/7/2000
       - Thomas P. Gore como citado in: Chalita, Mansour. Os mais belos pensamentos de todos os tempos. 4 Edição. Rio de Janeiro: Assoc. Cultural Internac. Gibran. pág. 84.
       - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas in: Discurso em razão do Dia dos Trabalhadores em 01º de Maio de 1941, no Estádio Vasco da Gama, Rio de Janeiro; Fonte: Biblioteca da Presidência da República
       - últimas palavras de Salvador Allende transmitidas por rádio durante o cerco ao La Moneda.
       - 11-set-1973, como citado in: Vermelho
       - You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions, or its office holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags--this is loyalty to unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let monarchy keep it.
          - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court - página 100, Mark Twain - Harper & Bros., 1899 - 433 páginas
       - We bow our heads in respect for those Soviet women who displayed exceptional courage in the severe time of war. Never before but during the days of the war the grandeur of spirit and the invincible will of our Soviet women, their selfless dedication, loyalty and affection to their Homeland, their boundless persistence in work and their heroism on the front manifested themselves with such strength.
          - Leonid Brejnev citado em "V karǐni zdiǐsnenoǐ mriǐ" - página 54 - por IE IU Kastelli - 1979
       - Yamamoto Tsunetomo in: Hagakure - O Livro do Samurai, Capítulo VI