John Dewey: “Individualism” was a doctrine which stated what was focal in thought and purpose.”

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.

If one wishes to realize the distance which may lie between “facts” and the meaning of facts, let one go to the field of social discussion.

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