John Dewey: “There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public…”

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

Nothing better exhibits the scope of the movement than the fact that philosophic theories of knowledge made the same appeal to the self, or ego, in the form of personal consciousness identified with mind itself, that political theory made…

The local communities without intent or forecast found their affairs conditioned by remote and invisible organizations.

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