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• 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.

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  Country, Fighting, Democracy

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Opportunity, America, Independence

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Optimism, Literature, Mixtures

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