John Dewey: “Thus the state appears either a monster to be destroyed or as a Leviathan to be cherished.”

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

The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.

Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.

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.