John Dewey: “Personal loyalties to elders take the place of political obedience.”

For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

The foe to be dreaded is interference of government.

Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.