John Dewey: “Just as publics and states vary with conditions of time and place, so do the concrete functions which should be carried…”

Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.