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Herbert Croly Quotes

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created Picture Quote #1

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation Picture Quote #1

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith (Herbert Croly Quotes) 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 (Herbert Croly Quotes) 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 (Herbert Croly Quotes) 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 Quotes) Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation. (Herbert Croly Quotes) 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. (Herbert Croly Quotes) 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. (Herbert Croly Quotes) The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created (Herbert Croly Quotes) American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation (Herbert Croly Quotes) Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less (Herbert Croly Quotes) 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 (Herbert Croly Quotes) The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal (Herbert Croly Quotes) 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 (Herbert Croly Quotes) 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 (Herbert Croly Quotes) 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 (Herbert Croly Quotes)