John Dewey: “It has consisted in a continuous re-distribution of social integrations on the one hand and of capacities and energies…”

The foe to be dreaded is interference of government.

In short, private acts may be socially valuable both by indirect consequences and by direct intention.

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.

Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.