John Dewey: “We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.”

Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.

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.

Wealth and security are the natural rewards of economic virtues.

But this conclusion is an obvious invitation to trial of forces to see where superior force lies.