John Dewey: “But, alas, the public has no hands except those of individual human beings.”

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

There are those who speak as if ability to choose between two tickets were a high exercise of individual freedom.

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

It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.