ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the long-time student of political loyalty and fidelity. There are many kinds of loyalties in human life: loyalty to the family, the neighborhood, the group, the city, the state, and the nation, the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. Custom is an age-old factor in the development of allegiance and loyalty. Custom continues to be one of the most powerful stabilizing forces in community structure and action. Loyalty in an authoritarian state is one thing; loyalty in a democratic state is another. The dynamic, democratic political state cannot remain neutral or on the defensive, but must pursue a vigorous offensive in advancing toward attainable goals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Loyalty does not flourish on neglect, injustice, inequality. The chapter declares that if America can loyal to the hopes of men born equal and endowed with the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
