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….

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

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

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

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

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

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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