Herbert Croly - Word Quotes

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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.

Herbert Croly

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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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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