Quote by Herbert Croly
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith,

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 interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights. – Herbert Croly

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

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Faith
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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

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Patriotism
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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

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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. Peter 3:15 – Bible

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We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God. – David Brainerd

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Faith

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question. – David Ogden Stiers

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I never search for a reason why – I have faith in the Lords purpose. – Willie Stargell

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. – Albert Einstein

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You put it in new words, but it is an old thought. This is one of the disadvantages of wine. It makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – Samuel Johnson, 1778, quoted by James Boswell in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.

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There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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