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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.

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, Hands, Historical
Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

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.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

Herbert Croly
Class, Soil, Creation

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

Herbert Croly
Uplifting, Memorial Day, Native American
Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.1, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

Herbert Croly
Literature, Federalism, Faults
Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.40, Cosimo, Inc.

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
Political, Independence, Mind
Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

Herbert Croly
Years, Self, Growth
Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

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.

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
Political, Triumph, Literature
Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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