John Dewey: “The smoothest road to control of political conduct is by control of opinion.”

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.

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.

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.