John Dewey: “But, after all, individual men and women exercise the franchise; the public is here a collective name for a multitude of…”

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

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

The foe to be dreaded is interference of government.

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.