Bainbridge Colby Quotes

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

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