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“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.”

Quote by Herbert Croly

Book:The Promise of American Life

Work

The Promise of American Life

A seminal work analyzing the American Dream and its evolution over time, exploring its influence on social, economic, and cultural aspects of American life. more

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Herbert Croly was an American political writer and critic, known for his contributions to political theory and his influence on Progressive Era politics. His seminal work, 'The Promise of American Life,' advocated for a more active government role in the economy and society. more

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“If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.”

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Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953

“The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.”

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Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

“Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions were allowed to develop (markedly so in the economic phase) which subordinated cooperativeness to liberty and equality serves to explain the decline in the two latter.”

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Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

“Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that the Old World has conquered morally as well as geographically succeeding in imposing upon us its ideals and methods.”

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Book:The Essential Dewey: Ethics, logic, psychology

Source: The Essential Dewey: Ethics, logic, psychology

“As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some functional organization would not serve to formulate and manifest public opinion better than the existing methods. It is not irrelevant to the point that a score of passages could be cited in which Jefferson refers to the American Government as an experiment.”

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Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

“We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.”

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Book:The Political Writings

Source: The Political Writings

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“As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.”

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“Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization.”

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“We are inclined to confuse freedom and democracy, which we regard as moral principles, with the way in which they are practiced in America with capitalism, federalism, and the two-party system, which are not moral principles but simply the preferred and accepted practices of the American people.”

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Author:J. William Fulbright