John Dewey: “It is our thesis that in this distinction we find the key to the nature and office of the state.”

The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.

There are those who speak as if ability to choose between two tickets were a high exercise of individual freedom.

But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.