Herbert Croly
Herbert Croly
Herbert David Crolywas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth23 January 1869
CountryUnited States of America
ocean land promise
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
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American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
optimism mixtures intense
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.
democracy definitions should
I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.
men organization democracy
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.
fall organization political
Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is at best a more than usually safe form of political organization . . . . But if it is to work better as well as merely longer, it must have some leavening effect on human nature; and the sincere democrat is obliged to assume the power of the leaven. [Progressive]
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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.
political intellectual democracy
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.
mind democracy individualism
In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.
political mind independence
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.
patriotic enthusiasm monopoly
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
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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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The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.
expression rights political
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.