John Dewey: “To form itself, the public has to break existing political forms.”

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.

There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.

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.

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.