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.
-- Mark Twain (1835-1910)