John Dewey: “But the more serious enemy is deeply concealed in hidden entrenchments.”

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.

For the very familiarity with the phenomena conceals their significance and blinds us to their relation to immediate political problems.

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

But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.