Herbert Croly

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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The average American is nothing if not patriotic. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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