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

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

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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 favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.

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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 tainted with a more doubtful tendency.

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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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The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.

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

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

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

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The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 23rd, 1869

Died: May 17th, 1930

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