The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization. – Herbert Croly

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. – Herbert Croly
Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved. – Herbert Croly
Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggys experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I dont take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual – scene to scene. – Elizabeth Moss