American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.
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The average American is nothing if not patriotic.Herbert Croly
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
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The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.
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Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.
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To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.
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