John Dewey: “We shall then be driven, unless we have recourse to mysticism, to decide that the public is born in a myth and is…”

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.

The foe to be dreaded is interference of government.

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.

The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.