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Herbert Croly Biography

Herbert David Croly (January 23, 1869 – May 17, 1930) was an intellectual leader of the progressive movement as an editor, political philosopher and a co-founder of the magazine The New Republic in early twentieth-century America. His political philosophy influenced many leading progressives including Theodore Roosevelt, as well as his close friends Judge Learned Hand and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.

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The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.

Federalism, Order, Organization, Political, Promoting, Social

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

Civilization, Equality, Gain, Given, Organization

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

Land, Ocean, Promise

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.

America, American, Economic, Independence, Largely, Opportunity

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.

Democracy, Organization, Rallied, Traditional, Woven

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.

Fault, Faults, Federalism, Implications, Literature

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.

Country, Democracy, Fighting, Thereby

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

Hands, Higher, Historical, Imaginative, Loyalty

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

Created, Literature, Popular, Song, Taken

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

Congratulation, Congratulations, Matter, Pride, Regret

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.

Growth, Pioneer, Power, Self, Western, Years

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

Americans, Course, Enthusiasm, Monopoly, Patriotic

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

Artful, Effect, Matter, Promise, Purpose

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.

Act, Contributing, Democracy, Disinterested, Men, Religious

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.

American, Conflict, History, Literature, Political, Triumph

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.

Based, Democracy, Men, Organization

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

Democratic, Land, Literature, Pervasive, Prosperity

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.

Habits, Inevitably, Long, Men, Needs, Running

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

Believe, Chance, Dangerously, Fair, Literature, Majority

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

Determined, Life, Literature, Nation, Promise

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