"Popular political institutions constitute a good servant but a bad master."
Here, Herbert Croly is expressing that when introduced less frequently, popular political institutions keep the government of a country in close relation with well informed ideas or opinions, which keeps the politics clean. However, if used more frequently, compromise or gamble the security of the individual as well and the strength and respect of the state. One can see how this statements, as well the rest of his writings contain significant elements of conservatism.
"If you are afraid to trust any and every man to put forth his powers as he pleases, then you are afraid of liberty itself."
Woodrow Wilson discusses the definition of freedom in this section of his writing. Beforehand, he went on to note that there is no man who is valor enough, strong enough, or smart enough to take care of a free people. Wilson himself stated that he himself is not willing to risk his liberty. I do not think anyone is. Wilson wanted to express his ideas involving the governing and overseeing of free people.
"I want to speak not of politics but of government. I want to speak not of parties but of universal principles."
Franklin D. Roosevelt verbalized his ideas of government. The issue of government, back then had always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government, or whether the a system of economics and government serves the man or woman. As one can see, one is either the servant to one, or the master of the other. For several generations, that question had ferverently took over the discussion of government.
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