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Political Quotes by Herbert Croly
- Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is at best a…
- 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.
- The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption…
- 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 Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle