John Dewey: “Since they hampered the free play of initiative and commercial activity, they were artificial and enslaving.”

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

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

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

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