John Dewey: “No man and no mind was ever emancipated merely by being left alone.”

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.

Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.

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

If one wishes to realize the distance which may lie between “facts” and the meaning of facts, let one go to the field of social discussion.