Conception Quote by Herbert Croly

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

— Herbert Croly

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Herbert Croly

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

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

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

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

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