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Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

John Dewey

Power, Ideas, Liberty

John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.360, SIU Press

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

John Dewey

Practice, Liberty, Consciousness

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, James Gouinlock (2008). “John Dewey The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1925-1927: Essays, Reviews, Miscellany, and the Public and Its Problems”, p.160, SIU Press

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.

John Dewey

Wisdom, Liberty, Expansion

John Dewey (1987). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.360, SIU Press

Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions were allowed to develop (markedly so in the economic phase) which subordinated cooperativeness to liberty and equality serves to explain the decline in the two latter.

John Dewey

Democratic Ideals, Two, Liberty

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.78, SIU Press