John Dewey: “There is no sanctity in universal suffrage, frequent elections, majority rule, congressional and cabinet government.”

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.

Is the public much more than what a cynical diplomat once called Italy: a geographical expression?

There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public doing anything which could be done by persons in their private capacity.

The foe to be dreaded is interference of government.