Bainbridge Colby's Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

We must be loyal to the forum of our government.

We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.