The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.
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The increased momentum of American life, both in its particles and its mass, unquestionably has a considerable moral and social value.Herbert Croly
In the long run, consequently, the ordinary American will have nothing irremediable to complain about except economic and social inequalities.
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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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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.
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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.
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Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
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