American - Author | January 23, 1869 - May 17, 1930
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.
Herbert Croly
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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.
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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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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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The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.
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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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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.
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The average American is nothing if not patriotic.
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Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
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The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
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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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American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
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