Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot...#Herbert Croly
American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and...#Herbert Croly
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is...#Herbert Croly
When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization,...#Herbert Croly
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was...#Herbert Croly
The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception...#Herbert Croly
The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely...#Herbert Croly
The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political...#Herbert Croly
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent...#Herbert Croly
