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When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.

When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.

Herbert Croly
Organization, Democracy, Woven
Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.47, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

Herbert Croly
Men, Organization, Democracy
Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.418, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

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Political, Intellectual, Democracy
Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.448, Cosimo, Inc.

The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave and manifest public need. They can be made permanently unselfish only by being helped to become disinterested in their individual purposes. In the complete democracy a man must in some way be made to serve the nation in the very act of contributing to his own individual fulfillment. Not until his personal action is dictated by disinterested motives can there be any such harmony between private and public interests.

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Religious, Men, Democracy

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

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Mind, Democracy, Literature
Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

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Democracy, Definitions, Should

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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