The average American is nothing if not patriotic..

In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. ….

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….

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromise….

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise..

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 conser….

The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by g….

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal….

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation..

If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be graduall….

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy ….

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national inte….

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a who….

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political pr….

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adopti….

Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is at best….

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of na….

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tain….

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther….

When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was….

So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this world, the whole associated life of that….