John Dewey: “But, like the authors of the theory, they ignored the technological forces making for consolidation.”

The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.

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.

Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?

The ties which hold men together in action are numerous, tough and subtle.