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Herbert Croly
American
Author
Born:
Jan 23
,
1869
Died:
May 17
,
1930
American
Democracy
Life
National
Organization
Political
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The average American is nothing if not patriotic.
Herbert Croly
Nothing
Memorial Day
American
Patriotic
Average
Average American
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.
Herbert Croly
Political
Progressive
System
Constitute
Direction
Constructive
Pointed
Federalism
Combination
Principle
Did
Substance
Formative
Which
Formed
Republicanism
Formula
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
Herbert Croly
Loyalty
Patriotism
Projection
National
Other
Promise
Higher
Ideal
Tradition
Hand
Historical
Precedent
American
Imaginative
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
Life
Prosperity
Opportunity
Alien
Independence
Immigrant
Promise
Economic
Economic Independence
Advantages
Been
Offered
America
American
Which
Converted
American Life
Who
European
Largely
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.
Herbert Croly
Prosperity
Political
Mind
Independence
Free
Added
Immediately
Economic
Absolutely
Economic Independence
Institutions
Always
However
Been
Political Institutions
American
Associated
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.
Herbert Croly
Achievement
Natural
Equality
World
Benefits
Liberty
Prosperity
Political
Organization
Political Liberty
Citizens
Given
Only
Civilization
Economic
Material
American
Gain
Social
Social Organization
Wholesome
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.
Herbert Croly
Constitution
Political
States
Structure
Adoption
Importance
Opponents
Inferior
Republicans
Jefferson
Hardly
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.
Herbert Croly
History
Conflict
Political
First
Complete
Latter
Characterized
Triumph
Resulted
Between
First Phase
Political History
American
Republicans
Phase
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
Democracy
Legal
Fight
Country
Consequences
Preserved
Saved
Our
Distracting
Followers
Individualistic
Merely
Conception
Because
Did
Jackson
Nationality
Douglas
Union
Thereby
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