John Dewey: “They reflected it in thought; after they emerged, they entered into subsequent strivings and had practical effect.”

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.

It rules but it does not regulate; for its rule is confined to receipt of tribute and ceremonial deference.

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.

In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.