Economic Quote by Herbert Croly

“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.”

Herbert Croly

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The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

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The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the…

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If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should…

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When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect…

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The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it…

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Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

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When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely…

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The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy…

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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of…

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The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

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Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

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