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American Quotes by Herbert Croly
- The average American is nothing if not patriotic.
- American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
- 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.
- Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
- The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
- The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and…
- The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a…
- 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 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…
- 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.
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