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Bainbridge Colby
American
Public Servant
About the author
A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
Bainbridge Colby,
American
Public Servant
#Liberty
#Law
#Welfare
America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
Bainbridge Colby,
American
Public Servant
#Liberty
#America
We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
Bainbridge Colby,
American
Public Servant
#Voice
#Hatred
We must be loyal to the forum of our government.
Bainbridge Colby,
American
Public Servant
#Government
An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
Bainbridge Colby,
American
Public Servant
#Country
#Loyalty
#Opposition
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.
Bainbridge Colby,
American
Public Servant
#Character
#Study
#Country
#Open
#Loyalty
#Duty
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.
Bainbridge Colby,
American
Public Servant
#Security
#Honor
#Being
#Country
#Consequences
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.
Bainbridge Colby,
American
Public Servant
#Teaching
#Strength
#Result
#Country
#Teachers
Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
Bainbridge Colby,
American
Public Servant
#Respect
#Loyalty
The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
Bainbridge Colby,
American
Public Servant
#Country
#Loyalty
#Citizenship
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.
Bainbridge Colby,
American
Public Servant
#Support
#Responsibility
#Result
#Men
#Difficulty
#Burden
#Duty
#Danger
The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
Bainbridge Colby,
American
Public Servant
#America
#Citizenship
Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
Bainbridge Colby,
American
Public Servant
#Public
#Will
#Thinking
#Loyalty
#Hate
#Envy
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
Bainbridge Colby,
American
Public Servant
#Men
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.
Bainbridge Colby,
American
Public Servant
#Will
#Country
#Spirit
#Present
#Future
#Temper
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.
Bainbridge Colby,
American
Public Servant
#Criticism
#Opposition
#Approval