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Herbert Croly

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The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.


— Herbert Croly


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The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.


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The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.


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The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.


— Herbert Croly


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The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.


— Herbert Croly


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Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.


— Herbert Croly


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When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.


— Herbert Croly


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It also influenced the later New Deal. Increasingly skeptical of the capacity of social welfare legislation to remedy social ills Croly argued that America's liberal promise could be redeemed only by syndicalist reforms involving workplace democracy. After returning to America Herbert Croly worked as an editor for an architectural magazine The Architectural Record from 1900 to 1906.

Croley was one of the founders of modern liberalism in the United States especially through his books essays and highly influential magazine founded in 1914 The New Republic. Increasingly skeptical of the capacity of social welfare legislation to remedy social ills Croly argued that America's liberal promise could be redeemed only by syndicalist reforms involving workplace democracy.

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