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Bainbridge Colby

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.

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The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the ins ...

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

Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the ...

We must be loyal to the forum of our government.

But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without ...

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the ...

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

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

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

It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of ...

We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.

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

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to polici ...