"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

Men, Burden, Danger, Difficulty

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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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"He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods."

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Claudette Colbert, French Actress

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"I've always liked men better than women."

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"And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold."

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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies."

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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."

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

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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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"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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"We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction."

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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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