John Dewey: “Till the Great Society is converted into a Great Community, the Public will remain in eclipse.”

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

The idea remains barren and empty save as it is incarnated in human relationships.

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

There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.