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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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  Halloween, Mean, Government

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.178, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Promise, Literature, Determined

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Rights, Expression, Political

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.

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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, Soil, Creation

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• The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

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  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Native American

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.1, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Literature, Federalism, Faults

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.40, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Political, Independence, Mind

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Years, Self, Growth

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

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  Patriotic, Enthusiasm, Monopoly

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Swag, Democratic Ideals, Achievement

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Political, Triumph, Literature

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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