My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutio…

Mark Twain
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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. ✨ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ch. 13 (1889)
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