John Dewey: “Those indirectly and seriously affected for good or for evil form a group distinctive enough to require recognition and…”

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.

That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.

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

Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?