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  • In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.
    - 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 woven.
    - 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 in power and self-consciousness.
    - Herbert Croly
  • 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.
    - Herbert Croly