John Dewey: “It is a means of doing for a person what otherwise only his own foresight, if thoroughly reasonable, could do.”

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.

In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.