John Dewey: “They represent a choice, amid a complex of contending forces, of that particular possibility which appears to promise…”

Custom consolidates what accident may have originated; established power has a way of legitimizing itself.

The foe to be dreaded is interference of government.

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.