John Dewey: “The state, even when it despotically interfered, was remote, an agency alien to daily 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.

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

Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.

There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public doing anything which could be done by persons in their private capacity.