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

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

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.

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

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