John Dewey: “Why should the will of the rulers have more authority than that of others?”

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.

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.

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

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.