Democracy may mean something more than a... by Herbert Croly | We Heart Quotes

Government May journalist Popular Political theorist

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

- Herbert Croly

Other quotes by Herbert Croly

Optimism Sense

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.

- Herbert Croly

Work Life

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.

- Herbert Croly

American Mind

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

Americans

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

- Herbert Croly

Policy

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

Equality World

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

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