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Bainbridge Colby [1869-1950] American
Rank: 104
Public Servant, Lawyer


Bainbridge Colby was an American lawyer, a political progressive, a co-founder of the United States Progressive Party and Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State. 

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The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
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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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Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson. Teacher
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An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
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America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
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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. Strength
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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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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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We must be loyal to the forum of our government.
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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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We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
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A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
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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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Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
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