Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.
Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891) (ed. Univ of California Press, 1980) - ISBN: 9780520033832