Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. 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.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to... its office holders.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not