John Dewey: “Modifiable and altering human habits sustain and generate political phenomena.”

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

In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.

Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.

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