John Dewey: “From this fact the most serious problem of government arises.”

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

The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.

For the older symbols of ideal life still engage thought and command loyalty.