Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less..

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the c….

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achiev….

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….

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation..

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perve….

I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized ….

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of ….

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith..

At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highe….

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism..

Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with ….

The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to fa….

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal..

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

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

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

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

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….

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