Bainbridge Colby Quotes

United States, Diplomat
December 22, 1869 – April, 11, 1950.

Bainbridge Colby (December 22, 1869 – April 11, 1950) was an American lawyer, a political progressive, a co-founder of the United States Progressive Party and Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State. Colby was a Republican until he helped co-found the National Progressive Party in 1912; he ran for multiple offices as a member of that party, but always lost.

Also known as Lawyer

Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

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- Thinking
- Hate
- Loyalty
It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

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- Men
- High
- Support

America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.

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We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.

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- Voice
- Hatred
- Stifle
That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

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- Mean
- Criticism
- Just
And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

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- Country
- Character
- Study
I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

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We must be loyal to the forum of our government.

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- Government
- Loyal
- Forum

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

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- Law
- Liberty
- Welfare
But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.

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- Country
- Honor
- Security
An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

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Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.

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- Respect
- Teacher
- Loyalty
The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

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- America
- Citizenship
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

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- Men
- Like
- Pictures

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

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- Good
- Country
- Loyalty
Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.

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- Country
- Future
- Proud