John Dewey: “The ballot is, as often said, a substitute for bullets.”

Competition will continue, but it will be less rivalry for acquisition of material goods, and more an emulation of local groups to enrich direct experience with appreciatively enjoyed intellectual and artistic wealth.

We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.

Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.