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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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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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legal
Author
Herbert Croly
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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

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

Category:
Faith
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Herbert Croly
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Faith
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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. – Felix Adler

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Faith

At issue was the question whether this mans faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another. – Whittaker Chambers

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Faith

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. – Khalil Gibran

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Faith

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it. – Mason Cooley

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Faith

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. – Albert Einstein

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Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. – Vincent Van Gogh

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My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries. – Yo-Yo Ma

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teacher

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in ones dues, in short, without paying. – Michel De Certeau

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