Quotes by Herbert Croly - Page 1

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.
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Uplifting
Memorial Day
Average
Native American
Patriotic
Average American
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The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.
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Granted
Literature
Song
Taken
Taken For Granted
Popular
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In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.
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Democracy
Individualism
Literature
Mind
Extreme
Jefferson
Tantamount
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Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
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Enthusiasm
Good Faith
Monopoly
Patriotic
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American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
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History
American History
Congratulations
Humiliation
Pride
Regret
Contains
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Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
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Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Land
Promise
United States
Wilderness
Atlantic
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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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Government
Halloween
Mean
Absolute
Popular
Theoretically
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Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.
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Class
Creation
Soil
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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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Determined
Literature
Possessed
Promise
Fruitful
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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Believe
Literature
Majority
Compromised
Dangerously
Fair
Fair Chance
Great Majority
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I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
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Active
Conservatism
Dislike
Fatalism
Intense
Literature
Mixtures
Optimism
Prophet
Entertain
Mixture
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The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
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Loyalty
Patriotism
Hands
Higher
Historical
Imaginative
Precedent
Projection
Ideal
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The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.
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Education
Library
School
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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 woven.
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Democracy
Fabric
Federalist
Organization
Traditional
Woven
Existing
Republicans
Jefferson
Union
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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.
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Independence
Economic Independence
Mind
Political
Political Institutions
Added
Associated
Immediately
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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 be gradually adapted to that assumption.
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Men
Democracy
Organization
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At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.
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Women
Motherhood
Wife
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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 of the latter.
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Conflict
Latter
Literature
Political
Political History
Triumph
Characterized
Complete
Republicans
First Phase
Phase
Resulted
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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 in power and self-consciousness.
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Concerned
Distinguished
Growth
Self
Self Consciousness
Western
Years
Domestic
Pioneer
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The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely and irresponsibly exercised.
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Democracy
Intellectual
Political
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So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.
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Certain
Doubtful
Faults
Federalism
Hamilton
Implications
Literature
Policy
Tainted
Far
Unfortunately
Least
Respects
Tendency
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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 adoption of the Constitution by the states.
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Adoption
Constitution
Importance
Opponents
Political
Structure
Republicans
Hardly
Inferior
Jefferson
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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 the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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Expression
Individual
Political
Rights
Bulwark
Fears
Local
National
National Interest
Organ
Wrought
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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 pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.
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Combination
Federalism
Political
Principles
Republicanism
Substance
Constitute
Direction
Formative
Pointed
Principle
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I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.
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Definitions
Democracy
Should
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The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.
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Conception
Democratic
Economic Prosperity
Land
Literature
Promised Land
Prosperity
Satisfied
Farther
Guaranteed
Pervasive
Promised
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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 thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.
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American Life
Fulfillment
Matter
Promise
Purpose
Life Work Purpose
Artful
Conceived
Effect
Ideal
Identify
Laborious
Substantially
Thereof
Whose
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To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.
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Opportunity
Independence
America
American Life
Economic Independence
Promise
Advantages
Alien
Converted
Immigrant
Largely
Offered
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In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. It preoccupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world.
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Running
Men
Long
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The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.
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Achievement
Adequate
American Life
Aspiration
Democratic
Democratic Ideals
Swag
Actual
Definition
Fruitful
Towards
Ideal
Proper
Vaguely
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Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.
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Legal
Conception
Country
Democracy
Fighting
Followers
Individualistic
Nationality
Saved
Consequences
Distracting
Douglas
Jackson
Merely
Preserved
Union
Thereby
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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 this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
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Equality
Achievement
Benefits
Citizens
Civilization
Liberty
Organization
Social Organization
Wholesome
Gain
Material
Political Liberty
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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 and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.
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Capable
Citizens
Federalism
Order
Organization
Political
Promoting
Social Order
Stable
Aroused
Favor
Lay
Seek
Well-To-Do
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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 more than usually safe form of political organization . . . . But if it is to work better as well as merely longer, it must have some leavening effect on human nature; and the sincere democrat is obliged to assume the power of the leaven. [Progressive]
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Fall
Organization
Political
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So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this world, the whole associated life of that community rests on an equivocal foundation. Its moral and social order is tied to an economic system which starves and mutilates the great majority of the population, and under such conditions its religion necessarily becomes a spiritual drug, administered for the purpose of subduing the popular discontent and relieving the popular misery.
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Country
Order
Spiritual
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The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave and manifest public need. They can be made permanently unselfish only by being helped to become disinterested in their individual purposes. In the complete democracy a man must in some way be made to serve the nation in the very act of contributing to his own individual fulfillment. Not until his personal action is dictated by disinterested motives can there be any such harmony between private and public interests.
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Men
Democracy
Religious
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