John Dewey: “It suggests that existing political and legal forms and arrangements are incompetent to deal with the situation.”

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

That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.

Custom consolidates what accident may have originated; established power has a way of legitimizing itself.

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