On the record
Loyalty will perish where protection and good faith are denied and withheld, and nothing other that this should be expected, either by a party, a man, or by a government.
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Frederick Douglass
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Editor's note · Context
Douglass highlights the importance of loyalty in governance and the consequences of its absence.
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