John Dewey: “The notion that men may be free in their thought even when they are not in its expression and dissemination has been…”

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.

In short, private acts may be socially valuable both by indirect consequences and by direct intention.

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.

There are those who speak as if ability to choose between two tickets were a high exercise of individual freedom.