Sticking to my guns has always served me well. I never got to high places by kissing ass or brown nosing, I did it by sticking with my own opinions and guts, which in my history is rewarded with respect. I never yeild to an opinion I don't agree with, but mind you I do tolerate, but tolerate doesn't mean agree. Like that treaty in Skyrim for example, I don't agree with it but I tolerate it as I serve with the Empire, waiting patiently till the day when I can crush the neck of the treaty and the Thalmor under my steel boot, but for now it waits.