Best quotes by Herbert Croly on American

Checkout quotes by Herbert Croly on American

• ‟ The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

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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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• ‟ American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

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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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• ‟ 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.

  - Herbert Croly