Bainbridge Colby (1869–1950) 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 social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
—Bainbridge Colby
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