Concerned Quote by Herbert Croly

The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

For America, the period of 1800 to 1920 was an unparalleled time of broad expansion and growth driven by extraordinary factors unlike almost any…

— Philip Anschutz

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its…

— Paul Tsongas

“Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to…

— Gordon S. Wood

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own…

— Herbert Hoover

Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the…

— Joe Conason

“Yet, more is at stake in this debate beyond simply acknowledging the religious inclinations of those people involved in the nation’s founding. The Founders…

— Steven K. Green

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

And why should we, of all people, expect the proud new developing nations to see the world precisely as we see it? Was any…

— Chester Bowles

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their…

— Walter E. Williams

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

— Samuel P. Huntington