John Dewey: “But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.”

The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.

The foe to be dreaded is interference of government.

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.

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.