Herbert Croly Quotes
32 quotes
in 595 categories
-
The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.
-
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 popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.
-
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…
-
To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise…
-
Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.
-
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof…
-
The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor…
-
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed…
-
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…
-
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.
-
Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because…
Browse Herbert Croly Quotes by Category