The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal. — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this world, the whole associated life of that community rests on an equivocal foundation. Its moral and social order… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less. — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal. — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
