John Dewey: “Belief in this political aspect is not a mystic faith as if in some overruling providence that cares for children…”

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

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.

But he does so only at the cost of repression of those of his potentialities which can be realized only through membership in other groups.

The foe to be dreaded is interference of government.