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

Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant

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

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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

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Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Poor men's reasons are not heard."

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Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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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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"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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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."

"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."

"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."

"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."

"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

"Poor men's reasons are not heard."

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."

"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."

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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."

"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."

"The test of good citizenship is loyalty to 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."

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

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