National Purpose Quotes by Herbert Croly

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• In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not…
• The average American is nothing if not patriotic.
• The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the…
• Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is…
• If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of…
• The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or…
• I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy)…
• I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing…
• Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.
• American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
• Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of…
• In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

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