Democracy Quote by Herbert Croly Download Open image “In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.” — Herbert Croly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Extremes Individualism Mind Psychology
Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson taught that a democracy was impractical unless the people were educated.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Jeffersonian democracy, faulty as it is, and only the fragment of it that we have, is a thing of such preciousness, a thing of… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses. — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been more admired than capitalistic Hamiltonian-style motivations of greed and power.” — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
“Alongside the elevated sentiments and intellectual insight, Jefferson was, at heart, authoritarian and anti-democratic. The Republican Party was the state; those who held different… — Andrew Lambert Copy Share Image
“America has always been torn between the ideal and the real, between noble goals and inevitable compromises. So was Jefferson. In his head and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
[Tomas] Jefferson believed that the United States was a chosen nation with a special responsibility to spread democracy around the world. — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector. And government… — Jerry Brown 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
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
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