Quote#Politics & Power
The best that can be said on behalf of this traditional American…
Quote byHerbert Croly · 1869–1930
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Promise of American Life (1909), p. 51.
English (original)
The best that can be said on behalf of this traditional American system of political ideas is that it contained the germ of better things. The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.
— Herbert Croly
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