"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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Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

Herbert Croly

#Loyalty Quotes #Hands Quotes #Historical Quotes

“Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way.”
“You see a fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair's breadth away. You have judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully... And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled.”
“It always buzzes me out when I meet someone that I'm a fan of who turns out to be a fan of mine too.”
“The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of reformers, radicals, and idealists who challenged the status quo of their day. They helped change America by organizing movements, pushing for radical reforms, popularizing progressive ideas, and spurring others to action.”
“The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.”
“What we have is the here and now, and what we have is each other, and let's find a way to deal truthfully with each other.”
“Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.”
“Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.”

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