John Dewey: “Force” is not eliminated but is transformed in use and direction by ideas and sentiments made possible by means of…”

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.

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.

There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.

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