John Dewey: “As symbols are related to one another, the important relations of a course of events are recorded and are preserved as…”

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

The foe to be dreaded is interference of government.

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

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