John Dewey: “The argument has not carried us far, but at least it has warned us against identifying the community and its interests…”

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.

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

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.