John Dewey: “Fraternity, liberty and equality isolated from communal life are hopeless abstractions.”

That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.

For the older symbols of ideal life still engage thought and command loyalty.

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.